Tags

Type your tag names separated by a space and hit enter

Hemispheric differences in processing handwritten cursive.
Brain Lang. 2007 Sep; 102(3):215-27.BL

Abstract

Hemispheric asymmetry was examined for native English speakers identifying consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) non-words presented in standard printed form, in standard handwritten cursive form or in handwritten cursive with the letters separated by small gaps. For all three conditions, fewer errors occurred when stimuli were presented to the right visual field/left hemisphere (RVF/LH) than to the left visual field/right hemisphere (LVF/RH) and qualitative error patterns indicated that the last letter was missed more often than the first letter on LVF/RH trials but not on RVF/LH trials. Despite this overall similarity, the RVF/LH advantage was smaller for both types of cursive stimuli than for printed stimuli. In addition, the difference between first-letter and last-letter errors was smaller for handwritten cursive than for printed text, especially on LVF/RH trials. These results suggest a greater contribution of the right hemisphere to the identification of handwritten cursive, which is likely related visual complexity and to qualitative differences in the processing of cursive versus print.

Links

Publisher Full Text
Aggregator Full Text

Authors+Show Affiliations

Hellige JB
Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061, USA. hellige@usc.edu
Adamson MM
No affiliation info available

MeSH

AdultDominance, CerebralFemaleHandwritingHumansLinguisticsMalePattern Recognition, VisualPhotic StimulationReadingVisual Fields

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

17157906

Citation

Hellige, Joseph B., and Maheen M. Adamson. "Hemispheric Differences in Processing Handwritten Cursive." Brain and Language, vol. 102, no. 3, 2007, pp. 215-27.
Hellige JB, Adamson MM. Hemispheric differences in processing handwritten cursive. Brain Lang. 2007;102(3):215-27.
Hellige, J. B., & Adamson, M. M. (2007). Hemispheric differences in processing handwritten cursive. Brain and Language, 102(3), 215-27.
Hellige JB, Adamson MM. Hemispheric Differences in Processing Handwritten Cursive. Brain Lang. 2007;102(3):215-27. PubMed PMID: 17157906.
* Article titles in AMA citation format should be in sentence-case
TY - JOUR T1 - Hemispheric differences in processing handwritten cursive. AU - Hellige,Joseph B, AU - Adamson,Maheen M, Y1 - 2006/12/08/ PY - 2006/05/24/received PY - 2006/09/16/revised PY - 2006/11/07/accepted PY - 2006/12/13/pubmed PY - 2007/12/6/medline PY - 2006/12/13/entrez SP - 215 EP - 27 JF - Brain and language JO - Brain Lang VL - 102 IS - 3 N2 - Hemispheric asymmetry was examined for native English speakers identifying consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) non-words presented in standard printed form, in standard handwritten cursive form or in handwritten cursive with the letters separated by small gaps. For all three conditions, fewer errors occurred when stimuli were presented to the right visual field/left hemisphere (RVF/LH) than to the left visual field/right hemisphere (LVF/RH) and qualitative error patterns indicated that the last letter was missed more often than the first letter on LVF/RH trials but not on RVF/LH trials. Despite this overall similarity, the RVF/LH advantage was smaller for both types of cursive stimuli than for printed stimuli. In addition, the difference between first-letter and last-letter errors was smaller for handwritten cursive than for printed text, especially on LVF/RH trials. These results suggest a greater contribution of the right hemisphere to the identification of handwritten cursive, which is likely related visual complexity and to qualitative differences in the processing of cursive versus print. SN - 0093-934X UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/17157906/Hemispheric_differences_in_processing_handwritten_cursive_ L2 - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0093-934X(06)00430-5 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -