Cerebral dominance and hemispheric metacontrol were investigated by testing the ability of healthy participants to match chimeric, entire, or half faces presented tachistoscopically. The two hemi-faces compounding chimeric or entire stimuli were presented simultaneously or asynchronously at different exposure times. Participants did not consciously detect chimeric faces for simultaneous presentations lasting up to 40 ms. Interestingly, a 20 ms separation between each half-chimera was sufficient to induce detection of conflicts at a conscious level. Although the presence of chimeric faces was not consciously perceived, performance on chimeric faces was poorer than on entire- and half-faces stimuli, thus indicating an implicit processing of perceptual conflicts. Moreover, the precedence of hemispheric stimulation over-ruled the right hemisphere dominance for face processing, insofar as the hemisphere stimulated last appeared to influence the response. This dynamic reversal of cerebral dominance, however, was not caused by a shift in hemispheric specialization, since the level of performance always reflected the right hemisphere specialization for face recognition. Thus, the dissociation between hemispheric dominance and specialization found in the present study hints at the existence of hemispheric metacontrol in healthy individuals. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Urgesi, C., Bricolo, E., Aglioti, S. (2005). Hemispheric metacontrol and cerebral dominance in healthy individuals investigated by means of chimeric faces. COGNITIVE BRAIN RESEARCH, 24(3), 513-525 [10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.03.005].

Hemispheric metacontrol and cerebral dominance in healthy individuals investigated by means of chimeric faces

BRICOLO, EMANUELA;
2005

Abstract

Cerebral dominance and hemispheric metacontrol were investigated by testing the ability of healthy participants to match chimeric, entire, or half faces presented tachistoscopically. The two hemi-faces compounding chimeric or entire stimuli were presented simultaneously or asynchronously at different exposure times. Participants did not consciously detect chimeric faces for simultaneous presentations lasting up to 40 ms. Interestingly, a 20 ms separation between each half-chimera was sufficient to induce detection of conflicts at a conscious level. Although the presence of chimeric faces was not consciously perceived, performance on chimeric faces was poorer than on entire- and half-faces stimuli, thus indicating an implicit processing of perceptual conflicts. Moreover, the precedence of hemispheric stimulation over-ruled the right hemisphere dominance for face processing, insofar as the hemisphere stimulated last appeared to influence the response. This dynamic reversal of cerebral dominance, however, was not caused by a shift in hemispheric specialization, since the level of performance always reflected the right hemisphere specialization for face recognition. Thus, the dissociation between hemispheric dominance and specialization found in the present study hints at the existence of hemispheric metacontrol in healthy individuals. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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chimeric face; cerebral dominance; hemispheric specialization; hemispheric metacontrol; interhemispheric interaction; unconscious processing
English
2005
24
3
513
525
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Urgesi, C., Bricolo, E., Aglioti, S. (2005). Hemispheric metacontrol and cerebral dominance in healthy individuals investigated by means of chimeric faces. COGNITIVE BRAIN RESEARCH, 24(3), 513-525 [10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.03.005].
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