The effect of time course and context on the facilitation of semantic features in the cerebral hemispheres

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作者
Atchley, RA
Burgess, C
Keeney, M
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[1] Univ Kansas, Dept Psychol, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[2] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Psychol, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
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10.1037/0894-4105.13.3.389
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B849 [应用心理学];
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040203 ;
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Two divided visual field priming experiments were designed to determine the nature of lexical retrieval in the cerebral hemispheres by studying the facilitation of semantic features of unambiguous nouns. Unambiguous nouns have a single meaning, yet semantic features associated with these nouns may vary in the degree to which they are compatible with this single meaning (e.g., LAMB-WOOL as compared with LAMB-CHOPS). Results suggest that the left hemisphere selects both strongly and weakly associated semantic features that are compatible with the dominant representation of the noun. Dominance compatibility, rather than association strength, seems to be the more important factor for deciding what features are maintained in the left hemisphere. In contrast, the right hemisphere maintains more varied information, including features that are less compatible with the dominant representation (Experiment 1) and context information (Experiment 2).
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