Abstract: The laterality of recognition of Chinese characters, words andsingle. Arabic numerals (ideogram) tachistoscopically exposed in the leftand right visual. field of normal right-handed subjects was investigated.There was no difference between left and right visual field for singleArabic numerals. A significant right field (left hemisphere). superiorityfor characters and words presented unilaterally and characters.presentedbilaterally with Arabic numerals was shown. The nonsignificant differ-ence between left and right visual fields for words .presentedbilaterally with numerals and characters presented in center and lateralvisual fields simultaneously was obtained; still the right visualfield (left hemisphere) produced the main effect on the recognition ofChinese characters and words.

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