Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794, U.S.A.
Abstract:
Subjects viewed letters to the left or right of fixation and were required to indicate whether or not each letter was a member of a target set. Half the subjects were told to base their responses on the name of each stimulus, while half were instructed to use stimulus configuration as the basis for their decision. An interaction of visual field and instructions was found for reaction time to target items. The role of task requirements in investigations of hemispheric asymmetry is discussed.