Reading direction shifts visuospatial attention: An Interactive Account of attentional biases

Rinaldi, Luca; Luca, Samuel Di; Henik, Avishai; Girelli, Luisa

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.05.018

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“…The reading and writing strategies are governed by strict rules that orients the oculomotor system in an ordered fashion, through both space and time. Such routines would be, in turn, exploited to scan external space (Rinaldi et al, 2014) and would also strongly bias the directionality of spatiotemporal schemas (Tversky, Kugelmass, & Winter, 1991). In the present study, the pattern of results found in the recall phase, with eye positions shifting from left-to-right with increasing serial position, offers support to this view, suggesting a critical influence of directional practices.…”

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“…Second, and more importantly, the left-to-right orientation of the serial representation might be grounded on sensorimotor mechanisms and, more specifically, on reading and writing practices . Indeed, oculomotor routines involved in both reading and writing would result, through repetition, in a preferential directional scanning of the external space (see Rinaldi, Di Luca, Henik, & Girelli, 2014). This directional preference would be reinforced in Western populations, where reading occurs from left-to-right, by the slight leftward bias in visuospatial attention processing (Bowers & Heilman, 1980; see Abrahamse et al, 2014;de Hevia, Girelli, & Macchi Cassia, 2012).…”

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Keeping an eye on serial order: Ocular movements bind space and time

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The present study examined whether traveling through serially-ordered verbal memories exploits overt visuospatial attentional resources. In a three-phase behavioral study, five single-digits were presented sequentially at one spatial location in phase 1, while recognition and verbal recall were tested in phases 2 and 3, respectively. Participants' spontaneous eye movements were registered along with the verbal responses. Results showed that the search and the retrieval of serially-ordered information were mediated by spontaneous ocular movements. Specifically, recognizing middle items of the memorized sequence required longer inspection times and, importantly, a greater involvement of overt attentional resources, than recognizing the serially first-presented item and, to a lesser extent, the last-presented item. Moreover, serial order was found to be spatially encoded from left-to-right, as eye position during vocal responses deviated the more to the right, the later the serial position of the retrieved item in the sequence. These findings suggest that overt spatial attention mediates the scanning of serial order representation.

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“…This effect may be caused by the fact that vertical word presentation is visuospatially more demanding and suppresses reading-related learning effects [46,62]. Furthermore, an efficacy advantage of the LH for verbal stimuli (e.g., [11,28,71]) was reflected by faster and more accurate performance for stimuli presented in the RVF than in the LVF.…”

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Left dominance for language perception starts in the extrastriate cortex: An ERP and sLORETA study

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“…A further explanation of the general leftward bias in eye position is reading habit (here left-to-right readers). Indeed it has been shown that the culture influences direction of eye movements for example by using a classical line bisection task and a cancellation task (Rinaldi, Di Luca, Henik, & Girelli, 2014) or a target finding task (Smith, Szelest, Friedrich, & Elias, 2015).…”

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Time in the eye of the beholder: Gaze position reveals spatial-temporal associations during encoding and memory retrieval of future and past

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Time in the eye of the beholder: Gaze position reveals spatial-temporal associations during encoding and memory retrieval of future and past AbstractTime is grounded in various ways, and previous studies point to a "mental time line" with past associated with the left, and future with the right side. In this study, we investigated whether spontaneous eye movements on a blank screen would follow a mental time line during encoding, free recall, and recognition of past and future items. In all three stages of processing, gaze position was more rightward during future items compared to past items.Moreover, horizontal gaze position during encoding predicted horizontal gaze position during free recall and recognition. We conclude that mental time line and the stored gaze position during encoding assist memory retrieval of past vs. future items. Our findings highlight the spatial nature of temporal representations.

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Reading direction shifts visuospatial attention: An Interactive Account of attentional biases

Cited by 100 publications

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Keeping an eye on serial order: Ocular movements bind space and time

Keeping an eye on serial order: Ocular movements bind space and time

Left dominance for language perception starts in the extrastriate cortex: An ERP and sLORETA study

Time in the eye of the beholder: Gaze position reveals spatial-temporal associations during encoding and memory retrieval of future and past

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