Logographic reading: Is the right hemisphere special?

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Abstract
It is often assumed that different orthographies make differential demands upon reading processes driven by the two cerebral hemispheres. One form of this hypothesis states that logographic scripts are processed relatively better in the right hemisphere than is an alphabetic script. This notion was tested in two experiments. Subjects named single terms and single Arabic numerals presented briefly to either the left or right visual field. Both experiments yielded a right-visual field advantage; there was no evidence that script type modulated the magnitude of the visual field asymmetry. These results offer no support to the hypothesis which supposes that, in normal right-handed subjects, it is generally the case that alphabetic and logographic scripts are differentially represented and/or processed in the two cerebral hemispheres.