The Right Hemisphere's Contribution to the Processing of Semantic Relationships between Words

@article{citeulike:2911142, abstract = {Abstract For more than a century, language has been assumed to be entirely dependent on left-hemisphere-based processing. However, since the early 1960s, evidence for the right hemisphere's involvement in language processing, in particular in the semantic processing of words, has emerged. At least three complementary approaches have provided evidence of this: behavioral data from neurologically intact participants, the study of brain-damaged patients and the use of neuroimaging methods. The goal of this article is to review the major evidence from these three sources concerning the nature of the right hemisphere's contribution to the semantic processing of words. Overall, the data from these studies suggest that both the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere are crucial for semantic processing, with both hemispheres being involved in different ways in the processing of semantic knowledge.}, author = {Kahlaoui, Karima and Scherer, Lilian C. and Joanette, Yves }, citeulike-article-id = {2911142}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00065.x}, journal = {Language and Linguistics Compass}, keywords = {general-psycholinguistics, lexical-processing, semantic-organization}, number = {0}, pages = {???}, posted-at = {2008-06-24 12:06:15}, priority = {3}, title = {The Right Hemisphere's Contribution to the Processing of Semantic Relationships between Words}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00065.x}, volume = {0}, year = {0} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2911142 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2911142 TI - The Right Hemisphere's Contribution to the Processing of Semantic Relationships between Words JF - Language and Linguistics Compass VL - 0 IS - 0 SP - ??? EP - ??? N2 - Abstract For more than a century, language has been assumed to be entirely dependent on left-hemisphere-based processing. However, since the early 1960s, evidence for the right hemisphere's involvement in language processing, in particular in the semantic processing of words, has emerged. At least three complementary approaches have provided evidence of this: behavioral data from neurologically intact participants, the study of brain-damaged patients and the use of neuroimaging methods. The goal of this article is to review the major evidence from these three sources concerning the nature of the right hemisphere's contribution to the semantic processing of words. Overall, the data from these studies suggest that both the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere are crucial for semantic processing, with both hemispheres being involved in different ways in the processing of semantic knowledge. KW - general-psycholinguistics KW - lexical-processing KW - semantic-organization AU - Kahlaoui, Karima AU - Scherer, Lilian AU - Joanette, Yves PY - 2000/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818X.2008.00065.x ER -