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. 1995 Sep;2(3):375-80.
doi: 10.3758/BF03210975.

Initial right hemisphere activation of subordinate word meanings is not due to homotopic callosal inhibition

C Chiarello  1 , L Maxfield, T Kahan
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Initial right hemisphere activation of subordinate word meanings is not due to homotopic callosal inhibition

C Chiarello et al. Psychon Bull Rev. 1995 Sep.

Abstract

Previous results (Burgess & Simpson, 1988a) have suggested that subordinate meanings are activated in the right hemisphere only when they have been inhibited in the left hemisphere. Such findings are consistent with a homotopic callosal inhibition view of hemispheric interaction (Cook, 1986). The current study employed prime-target stimulus onset asynchronies intermediate to those used by Burgess and Simpson and obtained equivalent priming of subordinate meanings over visual fields. These data rule out homotopic callosal inhibition as the mechanism responsible for initial activation of subordinate meanings in the right hemisphere and challenge homotopic inhibition as a general mechanism of interhemispheric interaction.

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