Writing direction influences the spatial representations of past- and future-tense forms: Evidence from eye tracking.
The present study tests the hypothesis that the directionality of reading habits (left-to-right or right-to-left) impacts individuals' representation of nonspatial events. Using the blank screen paradigm, we examine whether eye movements reflect culture-specific spatial biases in processing temporal...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 1079 - 1095 |
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