DOI: 10.5176/2251-1865_CBP16.53
Authors: Rupashree Brahma Kumari and Anamitra Basu
Abstract: The study examined the visual field superiority (VFS) of bilinguals with split visual field technique. Two different bilingual groups; Group A (SO) Santali first language (L1), Odia second language (L2) and Group B (OS) Odia first language (L1), Santali second language (L2) are considered as subject of the experiment. The experiment was conducted to test the visual word recognition in two different languages (Santali and Odia).The multivariate ANOVA technique was used to analyze the data generated from experiment for two dependent variables namely, recognition accuracy (RA) and response latency (RL).The factors considered in the ANOVA are visual field (VF) (LVF- Left visual field, RVF- Right visual field), stimulus content (SC) (EW-emotional word, NW- neutral word), word type (WT) (SW- Santali word, OW- Odia word), and presentation mode (PM) (unilateral, bilateral). The result of this study show emotional stimuli were better recognized in LVF than RVF. Unilaterally presented words were significantly better recognized than bilaterally presented words.
Keywords: Bilingualism, Visual-field, Language
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