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Overestimation of Phonological Judgments on the Right Side of Space

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 or not attentional biases are also observe...

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Autores principales: Turriziani, Patrizia, Santostefano, Alessia, Catania, Angela, Oliveri, Massimiliano
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10452177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37626480
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13081123
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author Turriziani, Patrizia
Santostefano, Alessia
Catania, Angela
Oliveri, Massimiliano
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description 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 or not attentional biases are also observed in tasks requiring an evaluation of phonological distance between words in the right and left hemifield. Forty-one healthy subjects were presented with triplets of words arranged in space and were asked to indicate the side of the 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.
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spelling pubmed-104521772023-08-26 Overestimation of Phonological Judgments on the Right Side of Space Turriziani, Patrizia Santostefano, Alessia Catania, Angela Oliveri, Massimiliano Brain Sci Article 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 or not attentional biases are also observed in tasks requiring an evaluation of phonological distance between words in the right and left hemifield. Forty-one healthy subjects were presented with triplets of words arranged in space and were asked to indicate the side of the 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. MDPI 2023-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10452177/ /pubmed/37626480 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13081123 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37626480
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13081123
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