When Kimura, of the University of Western Ontario, Presented Stimuli

question 109

Multiple Choice

When Kimura, of the University of Western Ontario, presented stimuli like letters, words, faces, and music to research participants such that the stimuli arrived first in either the left or right hemisphere, she found that:

• A) the stimuli were too quickly and efficiently transferred to the other hemisphere to detect hemispheric lateralization.
• B) the hemisphere that received the stimuli first did not begin processing it until the other hemisphere had received it too.
• C) stimuli are processed equally in the left and right hemispheres.
• D) hemispheric lateralization can be detected.

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