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Dimond, Stuart; Beaumont, Graham – British Journal of Psychology, 1974
Author studied the capacity of the normal brain to carry out a paired-associate learning task by projecting the stimulus material to either the right or left hemisphere in order to establish if there was a lateral specialization for this type of learning in the normal brain. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: College Students, Diagrams, Lateral Dominance, Left Handed Writer
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Zwaan, Rolf A.; Yaxley, Richard H. – Cognition, 2004
An experiment was conducted to examine whether perceptual information, specifically the shape of objects, is activated during semantic processing. Subjects judged whether a target word was related to a prime word. Prime-target pairs that were not associated, but whose referents had similar shapes (e.g. LADDER-RAILROAD) yielded longer ''no''…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Experiments, Patterned Responses