Hemispheric differences in semantic-relatedness judgments
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Rolf A Zwaan1, Richard H Yaxley
1Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1270, USA. zwaan@psy.fsu.edu
Abstract:
Subjects judged the semantic relatedness of word pairs presented to the left or right visual field. The word pairs were presented one below the other. On critical trials, the words' referents had a typical spatial relation, with one referent oriented above the other (e.g. ATTIC/BASEMENT). The spatial relation of the words either matched or mismatched the spatial relation of their referents. When presented to the left hemisphere, the match or mismatch did not have an effect. However, there was a reliable mismatch effect for pairs presented to the right hemisphere. The results are interpreted in the context of perceptual theories of mental representation.
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