The effects of visual half-field priming on the categorization of familiar intransitive gestures, tool use pantomimes, and meaningless hand movements

What is it about?

This paper is about processing of different kinds of gestures, including the most common (communicative, or intransitive), tool-use gestures (transitive) and meaningless gestures. Their categorization was affected by primes presented briefly in the right or left visual field.

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Why is it important?

The representations of intransitive gestures showed some differential, and sometimes counterintuitive sensitivity to right hemisphere processing.

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