Abstract
Three experiments investigated the role of the right cerebral hemisphere in the word frequency effect observed in visual word recognition. The experiments examined lexical decisions to low and high frequency words as well as non-words in a divided visual field paradigm. Experiment 1 showed a significant word frequency effect only for left visual field presentation. Experiment 2 provided a partial replication of the results of Experiment 1 with a different set of words. In Experiment 3, case alternation was implemented to investigate a possible explanation of the findings. Results of the first experiment were replicated in the condition without case alternation. In the case-alternated condition, the word frequency effect was significant only for right visual field presentations. The present findings emphasize the need to consider that information processing strategies relevant to hemispheric asymmetries might account in part for the word frequency effect.
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