Background Both reading words and text in Arabic is slower than in other languages, even
among skilled native Arabic speakers Previously we have shown that the right hemisphere …

Abstract Hebrew and Arabic are Semitic languages with a similar morphological structure
and orthographies that differ in visual complexity. Two experiments explored the interaction …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 24 (6) of
Neuropsychology (see record 2010-22445-001). The Arabic text appearing in the Appendix …

Although lexical decision remains one of the most extensively studied cognitive tasks, very
little is known about its relationship to broader linguistic performance such as reading ability …

The goal of this study was to examine whether readers of Hebrew generalize their native-
language processing strategies to the representation of English words. To this end, we …

This study examined the relationship between morphological structure of languages and
performance asymmetries of native speakers in lateralized tasks. In 2 experiments, native …

Behavioral laterality effects in naming and lexical decision in Farsi and English were used to
evaluate three theories of cross-linguistic differences. First, the Scanning hypothesis predicts …

Four experiments explored the effects of specific language characteristics on hemispheric
functioning in reading nonwords using a lateralized trigram identification task. Previous …

Three experiments investigated the role of the right cerebral hemisphere in the word
frequency effect observed in visual word recognition. The experiments examined lexical …

We compared behavioral laterality effect in a lexical decision task using cued unilateral or
bilateral presentations of different stimuli to normal subjects. The goals were to determine …