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Processing differences in the right and left visual half‐field
Author(s) -
LARSEN STEEN,
AHRENSBERG ROSEMARIE,
CARLSEN OVE,
MEJDING JAN
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1985.tb01172.x
Subject(s) - psychology , visual field , left and right , field (mathematics) , asymmetry , audiology , cognitive psychology , physics , neuroscience , mathematics , medicine , quantum mechanics , structural engineering , pure mathematics , engineering
Strings each containing 3 single digits were displayed tachistoscopically in the right and left visual half‐field to 59 normal children, 8 to 14 years old. A distinction between 4 types of responses was made. Correct responses most frequently occurred to items in the left half‐field, no half‐field advantages was found for reversed responses, and wrong‐order responses most frequently occurred to items in the right half‐field. These results are explained by suggesting a more analog mode of processing in the left visual half‐field and a more conceptual mode of processing in the right half‐field. The degree of asymmetry was found to be age‐related.