Hemispheric involvement in reading: The effects of language experience

Attention and the identification of parafoveal words in school-age children and adults

“…However, despite this attentional change, children showed the same RVFS for words as adults, with the same attentional bias in favor of the RVF. 2 Other authors have used bilateral presentation of words to explore interhemispheric cooperation in reading (Iacoboni & Zaidel, 1996;Ibrahim, Israeli, & Eviatar, 2010). We interpreted our results from an attention-based perspective, independently of the cooperation question, but we believe that it is not incompatible.…”

Attenuated hemispheric asymmetry in metaphor processing among adults with ADHD.

“…One can claim that the observed right hemisphere advantage is a consequence of a LVF preference, due to right to left reading direction in Hebrew. However, previous studies reported right visual field superiority (RVFS) in identification of words in different languages (Siéroff & Haehnel-Benoliel, 2014) including Hebrew (Ibrahim, Israeli, & Eviatar, 2010). It can be also argued that the difference between the RVF preference in Ibrahim, Israeli and Eviatar‘s study and the LVF preference in the current study is related to task requirements (lexical decision vs. semantic judgment of word pairs, respectively).…”

What’s left for balanced bilinguals? Language proficiency and item familiarity affect left-hemisphere specialization in metaphor processing.

“…It might seem that the LH advantage in the current study could also be driven by left-to-right script direction in English. However, previous reports of a LH advantage in many different languages (for a review see Siéroff & Haehnel-Benoliel, 2015) including languages with right-to-left scripts, such as Hebrew (Ibrahim, Israeli, & Eviatar, 2010; Faust & Mashal, 2007), make this possibility unlikely to be correct.…”