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In the previous experiment, most people show a right visual field advantage.

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Let’s look at the stages of processing that lead to this advantage

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in a right-hander with left hemisphere specialization for language.

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When a word is presented to the right visual field, the word goes

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directly to the left hemisphere, where it is processed and identified.

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When a word is presented to the left visual field, it is first processed in the right hemisphere,

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and then passes across the corpus callosum to be identified in the left hemisphere.

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Researchers believe that transferring information from the right hemisphere to the left hemisphere

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may lead to a loss of clarity, resulting in poorer identification of the words presented to the left visual field.