Zusammenfassung
It has recently been suggested that hemispheric differences for global and local processing already occur in response to visual pre-cues that direct attention to a specific level. However, in the supporting studies cue information was confounded with the form of the cues. In order to dissolve the confound, we compared event-related brain potentials towards cues differing in form with those ...
Zusammenfassung
It has recently been suggested that hemispheric differences for global and local processing already occur in response to visual pre-cues that direct attention to a specific level. However, in the supporting studies cue information was confounded with the form of the cues. In order to dissolve the confound, we compared event-related brain potentials towards cues differing in form with those towards identically formed color cues. As a result, hemispheric differences were found only for the former cue type. The data thus show that the mere cue information does not produce hemispheric asymmetries associated with global/local target stimulus processing.