Script Directionality Affects Nonlinguistic Performance: Evidence From Hindi and Urdu

Vaid, Jyotsna

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-1162-1_19

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“…Adults have been heavily exposed and accustomed to the writing habits of their languages, so the bias on the starting positions and directionality of drawing was likely well established for the dominant hand (Vaid, 1995). In the Japanese language, for example, some Hiragana letters having circular form, like "No" (Fig.…”

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Cultural Differences in Drawing Movements between Right-Handed Japanese and German Participants

Taguchi

2010

Psychol Rep

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Differences in drawing movements with the dominant and nondominant hands by 41 right-handed students from Japan (9 men, 12 women; M age = 20.3 yr., SD = 1.4) and Germany (13 men, 7 women; M age = 23.4 yr., SD = 3.0) were investigated. Participants were asked to use each hand to draw a circle, a pentagon, and a rhombus in one stroke. Analysis showed that Japanese participants drew a circle clockwise with the dominant right hand, starting from 6 or 7 o'clock on the face of a clock, while the German participants drew the circle counterclockwise, starting from 11 or 12 o'clock. Moreover, when drawing a pentagon and a rhombus with the right hand, Japanese participants drew counterclockwise from the top-center vertex, whereas almost half of German participants drew clockwise from the left side and others drew counterclockwise from the top-center vertex. Using the left hand, no significant difference was found in starting positions or directionality. Cultural differences in the starting positions and directionality when using the dominant right hand probably reflect the influence of writing habits on the drawing movement of the dominant hand.

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Cultural Differences in Drawing Movements between Right-Handed Japanese and German Participants

Taguchi

2010

Psychol Rep

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“…Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution, reselling, loan, sub-licensing, systematic supply, or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/page/termsand-conditions reading direction (Mishkin & Forgays, 1982;Orbach, 1967;Sakhuja, Gupta, Singh, & Vaid, 1996;Tramer, Butler, & Mewhort, 1985;Vaid, 1995;Vaid & Singh, 1989). The goal of the present study was to further clarify the relative influences of cultural and biological factors on the perception of facial affect.…”

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Asymmetric bias in perception of facial affect among Roman and Arabic script readers

Heath

Rouhana

Ghanem

2005

Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition

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The asymmetric chimeric faces test is used frequently as an indicator of right hemisphere involvement in the perception of facial affect, as the test is considered free of linguistic elements. Much of the original research with the asymmetric chimeric faces test was conducted with subjects reading left-to-right Roman script, i.e., English. As readers of right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic, demonstrated a mixed or weak rightward bias in judgements of facial affect, the influence of habitual scanning direction was thought to intersect with laterality. We administered the asymmetric chimeric faces test to 1239 adults who represented a range of script experience, i.e., Roman script readers (English and French), Arabic readers, bidirectional readers of Roman and Arabic scripts, and illiterates. Our findings supported the hypothesis that the bias in facial affect judgement is rooted in laterality, but can be influenced by script direction. Specifically, right-handed readers of Roman script demonstrated the greatest mean leftward score, and mixed-handed Arabic script readers demonstrated the greatest mean rightward score. Biliterates showed a gradual shift in asymmetric perception, as their scores fell between those of Roman and Arabic script readers, basically distributed in the order expected by their handedness and most often used script. Illiterates, whose only directional influence was laterality, showed a slight leftward bias.

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“…Zookeepers or animal researchers might exhibit unintentionally certain culture-specific biases while ordering things in a cage, marking territory with a line, and so on (cf. Tversky, Kugelmass, & Winter, 1991;Vaid, 1995). Whether monkeys are really able to internalize such spontaneous culturally oriented behavior of humans and transmit it to numerical tasks is as yet an open question, which could optimally be tested in cross-cultural or controlled training settings.…”

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Limitations of Trans‐Species Inferences: The Case of Spatial‐Numerical Associations in Chicks and Humans

Patro

Nuerk

2016

Cognitive Science

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Script Directionality Affects Nonlinguistic Performance: Evidence From Hindi and Urdu

Cited by 34 publications

References 21 publications

Cultural Differences in Drawing Movements between Right-Handed Japanese and German Participants

Cultural Differences in Drawing Movements between Right-Handed Japanese and German Participants

Asymmetric bias in perception of facial affect among Roman and Arabic script readers

Limitations of Trans‐Species Inferences: The Case of Spatial‐Numerical Associations in Chicks and Humans

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