TY - JOUR T1 - Effects of sentential context on the processing of unambiguous words by the two cerebral hemispheres. AU - Faust,Miriam, AU - Kravetz,Shlomo, AU - Netzer,Efrat, PY - 2002/3/19/pubmed PY - 2002/5/22/medline PY - 2002/3/19/entrez SP - 438 EP - 48 JF - Brain and language JO - Brain Lang VL - 80 IS - 3 N2 - The effect of sentence context on the processing of different aspects of meaning of unambiguous nouns by the two cerebral hemispheres was examined. Participants performed a lexical decision task on target words following two primes, an unambiguous noun preceded by an incomplete sentence. Priming sentences were consistent with either the dominant or the subordinate aspect of meaning of their final unambiguous word. Short and long SOAs were used. A principal finding of this study was that, when compared to unrelated aspects of meaning, for both the short and the long SOAs, the dominant and subordinate aspects of meaning of the unambiguous words were activated regardless of context in both hemispheres. However, the activation of the subordinate aspect of meaning of unambiguous words appears to be more sensitive to sentential context, especially when the unambiguous word is being processed by the left hemisphere. SN - 0093-934X UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/11896651/Effects_of_sentential_context_on_the_processing_of_unambiguous_words_by_the_two_cerebral_hemispheres_ L2 - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0093934X0192601X DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -