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Information extraction from brief verbal displays: Half‐field and serial position effects for children, normal and illiterate adults
Author(s) -
Davidoff J. B.,
Beaton A. A.,
Done D. J.,
Booth H.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1982.tb01787.x
Subject(s) - psychology , reading (process) , developmental psychology , visual field , audiology , affect (linguistics) , age groups , cognitive psychology , communication , linguistics , demography , medicine , neuroscience , philosophy , sociology
Adults learning to read for the first time and two groups of control subjects (matched for reading age or chronological age) were tachistoscopically presented with three types of vertically oriented letter string in the left or right visual field. Contrary to predictions that age or deprivation from textual experience would affect differential hemispheric processing, there were no significant differences between the three groups in the size or direction of visual field asymmetries that were not independent of performance level. However, the normal adults showed markedly different serial position curves from the other two groups. This suggests that the manner in which information is extracted from a visual display varies with level of reading attainment but is not affected by the age at which reading skills are acquired.