Visual
Field Differences of the Effects of Peripheral Semantic Information
: Possible Effects of Reading Habit
T. Kamei & T. Hatta |
The
different degree of effects of unattended peripheral information
and the possible contribution of reading habit on the central information
processing was investigated using a new priming paradigm developed
by Ortells and Tudela (1996). In the sequence of the stimulus presentation,
the peripheral information were presented both in the left visual
field (LVF) and the right visual field (RVF) simultaneously, and
after 30 msec, a central target was presented. Subjects were required
to be unattentive to the primes, and to make a lexical decision toward
the central target. In Experiment 1, the effect of unattended peripheral
information in horizontal letter arrangement was measured. Sixteen
university students participated in as the subject, and in Experiment
2 the effect in vertical letter arrangement was measured and 2d university
students were participated. The results revealed that the unattended
peripheral priming effect occurred only in the left hemisphere, and
the reading habit affected on this priming effect. Based on these
findings, the implication of the unattended peripheral information
effect was discussed. Key Words: hemispheric asymmetry, unattended peripheral priming |