Abstract
An experiment was conducted to examine the relationship between hemisphere specialization and temporal changes in the status of visual and verbal codes in short-term memory. The procedure, which involved presentation of a single target letter in central vision followed by a unilateral probe, yielded a general right visual field left-hemisphere advantage for physical and name matches at stimulus onset asynchronies greater than.05 sec. The results support the hemisphere-priming view advanced by Kinsbourne (1973) and are inconsistent with alternative accounts involving temporal changes in representations in the cerebral hemispheres.
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