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Hemispheric specialization was used to study letter detection. Better detection of letters in words than nonwords was found only in the right hemifield, both for horizontal (Experiment I) and vertical arrays (Experiment II). These results indicate that the present variant of the word-superiority effect has a verbal locus (left hemisphere) rather than a visual-spatial locus (right hemisphere).
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This study was supported bv NIH Grant HD04869 and HD09282. The author is grateful to Sheri Berenbaum, Jeffrey Wildfogel, Steve Silverman, and Richard Cohen for collecting and tabulating the data.
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Krueger, L.E. The word-superiority effect: Is its locus visual-spatial or verbal?. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 6, 465–468 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337538
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