@article {Ventura:2019:1357-650X:98,
title = "Hemispheric asymmetry in holistic processing ofwords",
journal = "Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain, and Cognition",
parent_itemid = "infobike://routledg/plat",
publishercode ="routledg",
year = "2019",
volume = "24",
number = "1",
publication date ="2019-01-02T00:00:00",
pages = "98-112",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1357-650X",
eissn = "1464-0678",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/plat/2019/00000024/00000001/art00006",
doi = "doi:10.1080/1357650X.2018.1475483",
keyword = "Complete composite task, holistic word processing, divided visual field paradigm, hemispheric asymmetries, Portuguese words",
author = "Ventura, Paulo and Delgado, Jo{\~a}o and Ferreira, Miguel and Farinha-Fernandes, Ant{\’o}nio and Guerreiro, Jos{\’e} C. and Faustino, Bruno and Leite, Isabel and Wong, Alan C.-N.",
abstract = "Holistic processing has been regarded as a hallmark of face perception, indicating the automatic and obligatory tendency of the visual system to process all face parts as a perceptual unit rather than in isolation. Studies involving lateralized stimulus presentation suggest that the
right hemisphere dominates holistic face processing. Holistic processing can also be shown with other categories such as words and thus it is not specific to faces or face-like expertize. Here, we used divided visual field presentation to investigate the possibly different contributions of
the two hemispheres for holistic word processing. Observers performed same/different judgment on the cued parts of two sequentially presented words in the complete composite paradigm. Our data indicate a right hemisphere specialization for holistic word processing. Thus, these markers of expert
object recognition are domain general.",
}