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Grid patterns or CVC trigrams were presented tachistoscopically in the left or right visual fields or concurrently in both visual fields. There were fewer errors in identifying both grids and CVCs when a grid on the left was paired with a CVC on the right than when a CVC on the left was paired with a grid on the right. The result indicated that when each hemisphere received the type of stimulus material, spatial or verbal, for which its function was specialized, they served as separate channels and processing accuracy was maximal.
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White, K.G., Silver, A.B. Cerebral hemispheres serve as two channels for visual information processing. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 6, 51–52 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333142
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