Interhemispheric communication via direct connections for
alternative meanings of ambiguous words Collins, M.A. (2002)
Interhemispheric communication via direct connections for
alternative meanings of ambiguous words. Brain and Language, 80
(1). pp. 77-96. *Subscription may be required A priming
experiment was used to investigate Burgess and Simpson's (1988)
claim that interhemispheric cooperation plays an essential role
in the interpretation of ambiguous text. In doing so, the merits
of two models of interhemispheric cooperation, the homotopic
inhibition theory (Cook, 1986) and the direct connections model
(Collins & Coney, 1998), were examined. Priming of alternative
meanings of ambiguous words was measured using homographs and
their dominant (e.g., BARK–DOG) and subordinate meanings (e.g.,
BARK–TREE) as related pairs in a lexical decision task, with
normal university students as subjects. Stimulus pairs were
temporally separated by stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) of
180 and 350 ms and were independently