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Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the accuracy and processing speed of verbal stimuli among students with low and high ability in mathematics. A total of 60 native Greek students participated (30 boys and 30 girls), ranging in age from 15 to 18. A tachistoscopic technique was used to present the verbal stimuli: words were presented to either the left or the right visual field, and delivered to the contralateral hemisphere. Our results showed that students with high ability in mathematics gave faster responses and made fewer errors for the rhyme and semantic judgments they were asked to make than students with low ability in mathematics. This finding lends support to previous studies which claim an association between mathematical and language skills. Moreover, our data provide evidence for right hemisphere (RH) participation in making semantic judgments.