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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 129-147Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.31.1.129
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- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [R01HD022614] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [R01AG008313] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIA NIH HHS [AG08313] Funding Source: Medline
- NICHD NIH HHS [HD22614] Funding Source: Medline
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Researchers using lateralized stimuli have suggested that the left hemisphere is sensitive to sentence-level context, whereas the right hemisphere (RH) primarily processes word-level meaning. The authors investigated this message-blind RH model by measuring associative priming with event-related brain potentials (ERPs). For word pairs in isolation, associated words elicited more positive ERPs than unassociated words with similar magnitudes and onset latencies in both visual fields. Embedded in sentences, these same pairs showed large sentential context effects in both fields. Small effects of association were observed, confined to incongruous sentences after right visual hemifield presentation but present for both congruous and incongruous sentences after left visual hemifield presentation. Results do not support the message-blind RH model but do suggest hemispheric asymmetries in the use of word and sentence context during real-time processing.
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