TY - JOUR PY - 1983// TI - Lateral asymmetries in electrodermal responses to nonattended stimuli: a response to Dawson and Schell JO - Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance A1 - Walker, Elizabeth A1 - Ceci, S. J. SP - 145 EP - 147 VL - 9 IS - 1 N2 - Recently, Dawson and Schell (1982) provided convincing evidence that words presented to the nonattended ear during a dichotic-listening task undergo automatic semantic analysis in the absence of intention or awareness. Because of its methodological rigor, this finding is important in the context of the long-standing controversy surrounding the preattentive processing phenomenon. However, we challenge the authors' suggestion of a right-hemisphere locus for this phenomenon. We offer a methodological basis for the findings and propose a countersuggestion of a left hemisphere, or at least bilateral, processing locus.

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