Abstract
We welcome this opportunity to discuss further our study (Koivisto & Laine, 2000, this issue) and the theoretical conclusions we presented as a model on hemispheric mechanisms in semantic processing. The model put forth claims that when semantic priming occurs within the left visual field/right hemisphere (LVF/RH), it is attributable to postlexical semantic integration, and when priming can be attributed to automatic semantic activation, it only occurs within the right visual field/left hemisphere (RVF/LH). Chiarello (2000, this issue) argues in her commentary that (1) our data supporting this account are weak, (2) our model cannot accommodate the data, and (3) the support for our account from prior literature is not as strong as we claimed.
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