Bradshaw, A;
Bishop, D;
Woodhead, Z;
(2020)
Testing the interhemispheric deficit theory of dyslexia using the visual half-field technique.
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
10.1177/1747021819895472.
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Abstract
A deficit in interhemispheric transfer has been proposed as a neuropsychological theory of dyslexia. Interactions between the hemispheres during word recognition can be studied using the visual half-field paradigm. The well-established recognition advantage for right visual field (RVF) words over left visual field (LVF) words reflects the additional processing costs associated with callosal transfer of LVF word representations to the language specialised left hemisphere. Additionally, a further gain in recognition for bilateral presentation of a word has been attributed to cooperative interactions between the hemispheres. These recognition advantages can therefore be seen as behavioural indices of the efficiency of callosal transfer. This study aimed to replicate the finding of an absence of the bilateral advantage in developmental dyslexia, previously reported by Henderson, Barca and Ellis (2007). 47 dyslexic and 43 control adult participants were tested, and no significant difference was found in the size of the bilateral advantage between the two groups. Our data did however replicate the previous finding of an increased RVF advantage in dyslexic participants caused by poorer accuracy for LVF words. This evidence provides partial support for the interhemispheric deficit theory of dyslexia, suggesting an impairment in the transfer of visual word information from the right to the left hemisphere during reading.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Testing the interhemispheric deficit theory of dyslexia using the visual half-field technique |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1747021819895472 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819895472 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecreativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Dyslexia, visual half-field paradigm, interhemispheric transfer, corpus callosum, lateralization, reading |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10086490 |
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