Turriziani, P.; Santostefano, A.; Catania, A.; Oliveri, M. Overestimation of Phonological Judgments on the Right Side of Space. Brain Sci.2023, 13, 1123.
Turriziani, P.; Santostefano, A.; Catania, A.; Oliveri, M. Overestimation of Phonological Judgments on the Right Side of Space. Brain Sci. 2023, 13, 1123.
Turriziani, P.; Santostefano, A.; Catania, A.; Oliveri, M. Overestimation of Phonological Judgments on the Right Side of Space. Brain Sci.2023, 13, 1123.
Turriziani, P.; Santostefano, A.; Catania, A.; Oliveri, M. Overestimation of Phonological Judgments on the Right Side of Space. Brain Sci. 2023, 13, 1123.
Abstract
Spatial attentional biases can be observed during the processing of linguistic material. For example, we previously reported that healthy subjects overestimate the semantic distance between word stimuli in the right vs left space.
Here we explored whether attentional biases are also observed in tasks requiring evaluation of phonological distance between words in the right and left hemispace.
Forty-one healthy subjects were presented with triplets of words arranged in space and were asked to indicate the side of space in which the phonological distance between the middle word and an outer word was smaller. In Experiment 1 real words and pseudowords were used, while in Experiment 2 only pseudowords and consonant strings were used.
Subjects overestimated the phonological distance between the middle and outer words in the right space. These findings were specific to word stimuli.
These results are consistent with the idea that semantic and phonological information may be internally mapped onto spatial representations.
Keywords
Attention; phonological processing; space
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Behavioral Sciences
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