Publication Cover
Laterality
Asymmetries of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognition
Volume 22, 2017 - Issue 1
193
Views
6
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Controlled semantic processes within and between the two cerebral hemispheres

&
Pages 1-16 | Received 06 Jun 2015, Accepted 04 Sep 2015, Published online: 09 Oct 2015

References

  • Baayen, R. H., Davidson, D. J., & Bates, D. M. (2008). Mixed-effects modeling with crossed random effects for subjects and items. Journal of Memory and Language, 59(4), 390–412. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.12.005
  • Banich, M. T. (2003). Interaction between the hemispheres and its implications for the processing capacity of the brain. In R. Davidson & K. Hugdahl (Eds.), Brain asymmetry (2nd ed., pp. 261–302). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Beeman, M. (1998). Coarse semantic coding and discourse comprehension. In M. Beeman & C. Chiarello (Eds.), Right hemisphere language comprehension: Perspectives from cognitive neuroscience (pp. 255–284). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Berardi, N., & Fiorentini, A. (1997). Interhemispheric Transfer of Spatial and Temporal Frequency Information. In S. Christman (Ed.), Cerebral asymmetries in sensory and perceptual processing (pp. 55–79). New York, NY: Elsevier Science.
  • Burgess, C., & Simpson, G. B. (1988). Cerebral hemispheric mechanisms in the retrieval of ambiguous word meanings. Brain and Language, 33(1), 86–103. doi: 10.1016/0093-934X(88)90056-9
  • Coulson, S., Federmeier, K. D., Van Petten, C., & Kutas, M. (2005). Right hemisphere sensitivity to word- and sentence-level context: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 31(1), 129–147.
  • Coulson, S., & Williams, R. W. (2005). Hemispheric asymmetries and joke comprehension. Neuropsychologia, 43(1), 128–141. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.03.015
  • Eviatar, Z., Hellige, J. B., & Zaidel, E. (1997). Individual differences in hemispheric specialization: Effects of gender and handedness. Neuropsychology, 11(4), 562–576. doi: 10.1037/0894-4105.11.4.562
  • Eviatar, Z., & Just, M. A. (2006). Brain correlates of discourse processing: An fMRI investigation of irony and metaphor comprehension. Neuropsychologia, 44(12), 2348–2359. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.05.007
  • Faust, M., & Chiarello, C. (1998). Sentence context and lexical ambiguity resolution by the two hemispheres. Neuropsychologia, 36(9), 827–835. doi: 10.1016/S0028-3932(98)00042-6
  • Faust, M. E., & Gernsbacher, M. A. (1996). Cerebral mechanisms for suppression of inappropriate information during sentence comprehension. Brain and Language, 53(2), 234–259. doi: 10.1006/brln.1996.0046
  • Federmeier, K. D., & Kutas, M. (1999). Right words and left words: Electrophysiological evidence for hemispheric differences in meaning processing. Cognitive Brain Research, 8(3), 373–392. doi: 10.1016/S0926-6410(99)00036-1
  • Giora, R. (1997). Understanding figurative and literal language: The graded salience hypothesis. Cognitive Linguistics, 8(3), 183–206. doi: 10.1515/cogl.1997.8.3.183
  • Giora, R. (2003). On our mind: Salience, context, and figurative language. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Giora, R., Zaidel, E., Soroker, N., Batori, G., & Kasher, A. (2000). Differential effect of right and left hemispheric damage on understanding sarcasm and metaphor. Metaphor and Symbol, 15(1–2), 63–83. doi: 10.1080/10926488.2000.9678865
  • Halderman, L. K., & Chiarello, C. (2005). Cerebral asymmetries in early orthographic and phonological reading processes: Evidence from backward masking. Brain and Language, 95(2), 342–352. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.02.005
  • Harpaz, Y., Levkovitz, Y., & Lavidor, M. (2009). Lexical ambiguity resolution in Wernicke's area and its right homologue. Cortex, 45(9), 1097–1103. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.01.002
  • Jung-Beeman, M. (2005). Bilateral brain processes for comprehending natural language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(11), 512–518. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2005.09.009
  • Kandhadai, P., & Federmeier, K. D. (2010). Hemispheric differences in the recruitment of semantic processing mechanisms. Neuropsychologia, 48(13), 3772–3781. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.07.018
  • Lavidor, M., & Ellis, A. W. (2003). Orthographic and phonological priming in the two cerebral hemispheres. Laterality, 8, 201–223.
  • Luh, K. E., & Levy, J. (1995). Interhemispheric cooperation: Left is left and right is right, but sometimes the twain shall meet. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21(6), 1243–1258.
  • Mashal, N., Faust, M., & Hendler, T. (2005). The role of the right hemisphere in processing nonsalient metaphorical meanings: Application of Principal Components Analysis to fMRI data. Neuropsychologia, 43(14), 2084–2100. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.03.019
  • Meyer, A. M., & Federmeier, K. D. (2007).The effects of context, meaning frequency, and associative strength on semantic selection: Distinct contributions from each cerebral hemisphere. Brain Research, 1183, 91–108. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.09.007
  • Oldfield, R. C. (1971). The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh Inventory. Neuropsychologia, 9(1), 97–113. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(71)90067-4
  • Peleg, O., & Eviatar, Z. (2008). Hemispheric sensitivities to lexical and contextual constraints: Evidence from ambiguity resolution. Brain and Language, 105(2), 71–82. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.09.004
  • Peleg, O., & Eviatar, Z. (2009). Semantic asymmetries are modulated by phonological asymmetries: Evidence from the disambiguation of heterophonic versus homophonic homographs. Brain and Cognition, 70(1), 154–162. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.01.007
  • Peleg, O., & Eviatar, Z. (2012). Understanding written words: Phonological, lexical and contextual effects in the two cerebral hemispheres. In M. Faust (Ed.), Neuropsychology of Language: Advances in the neural substrates of language (pp. 59–76). New York, NY: Wiley.
  • Peleg, O., Markus, A., & Eviatar, Z. (2012). Hemispheric asymmetries in meaning selection: Evidence from the disambiguation of homophonic vs. heterophonic homographs. Brain and Cognition, 80(3), 328–337. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.08.005
  • Titone, D. A. (1998). Hemispheric differences in context sensitivity during lexical ambiguity resolution. Brain and Language, 65(3), 361–394. doi: 10.1006/brln.1998.1998
  • Zaidel, E., & Peters, A. M. (1981). Phonetic encoding and ideographic reading by the disconnected right hemisphere: Two case studies. Brain and Language, 14(2), 205–234. doi: 10.1016/0093-934X(81)90077-8

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.