Abstract
This study investigated the effect of divided visual field presentation of stimuli upon a levels of processing memory task. Subjects (N=15) were asked questions designed to prompt processing at orthographic, phonemic, syntactic or semantic levels. Results indicated no main effect when the prime was semantically related to the target or for visual field of presentation of the prime. However, an interaction was observed such that significantly improved recall obtained with right visual field prime presentation when subjects were first prompted with questions about semantic category information. Further analysis suggested that the increased recall was due to semantically-related prime words which had been presented to the right visual field. Implications for lateralized styles of processing within a levels of processing framework are discussed.
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