Abstract
Clinical and experimental evidence indicate that the right hemisphere possesses a special capacity for emotional non-verbal material. The possibility that this ability would extend to language was tested with a lexical decision paradigm using tachistoscopic double simultaneous presentation of emotional and non-emotional words. Male subjects showed an overall right visual field superiority with the predicted effect of emotional words in the left visual field. In contrast, the field advantages for females were more variable and showed evidence of a larger effect of emotional words in the right visual field. The imageability potential of words also appeared to influence the female performance.
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