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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Visual Perception

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  • Word processing is influenced by visual field (LVF/RVF) and brain hemisphere activation.
  • Script direction (e.g., French LTR, Hebrew RTL) may differentially affect reading.
  • Bilingualism offers a unique model to study these effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how script direction interacts with visual field and left hemisphere activation during word processing.
  • To determine the impact of script direction on word length effects and letter position advantages.
  • To explore the role of selective attention in modulating processing resources based on script direction.

Main Methods:

  • Bilingual French participants performed a word naming task.
  • Words of varying lengths were presented in the left visual field (LVF) and right visual field (RVF).
  • Stimuli included both left-to-right (French) and right-to-left (Hebrew) scripts.

Main Results:

  • A significant word length effect was observed in the LVF for French but not Hebrew.
  • A first-letter advantage was found in the LVF for French and RVF for Hebrew, indicating script-dependent letter processing.
  • External letter advantage was stronger in the LVF than RVF for both scripts, suggesting left hemisphere influence.

Conclusions:

  • Script direction and left hemisphere activation differentially impact word processing in the LVF and RVF.
  • Selective attention mechanisms likely adapt processing windows based on script direction.
  • Attentional resource modulation during reading is influenced by left hemisphere activation patterns.