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On Mar 6, 4:23 pm, "Heidi Graw" <h...@telus.net> wrote:
> >"Niki" <n.m.ke...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
> >news:1173213923.286652.12060@q40g2000cwq.googlegroups.com...
> > Could anyone point me to any papers and articles exploring
> > perception of text and if there are any differences in the
> > understanding of content depending upon its direction? for
> > example reading from top to bottom, left to right, and right
> > to left?
>
> > When we look at a scene or a picture we may habitually read
> > the picture from the direction we have become most comfortable
> > with, but are there any other reasons, eg neurological or the
> > particular visual processing areas that are affected by movement
> > of the eyes?
>
> > I read that people who's first language was Chinese, tended to
> > have a better overall perception of a scene and its content,
>
> > ta :)
>
> The following site discusses left and right brain activities.
>
> http://www.viewzone.com/bicam.html
>
> For myself, I tend to scan the scenery from left to right.  I'm
> finding I'm using my right hemisphere to begin my search
> from the left.
>
> However, with some effort, I can scan the scenery from
> right to left.  I can feel my left hemisphere kicking in to
> begin that search from the right.

Jeezus, Heidi. If you can "feel" what your brain is doing, why the
hell are you wasting your time in a newsgroup, when you could be
earning millions as an informant for neurophysiologists?

> The site I mention above claims:

So did every pop psychologist in the 1970s. Does that make it true?

> Right brain...feeling and "big picture" oriented.
> Left brain...logic and details oriented.
>
> Remember that the left side of the body is commandeered by

"commandeered"? Check a dictionary. No, not an "etymological
dictionary."

> the right side of the brain, just as the right side of the body
> is controlled by the left side of the brain.
>
> So, to read from left to right, top to bottom, it's a right
> brain activity.
>
> But to read from right to left bottom up is a left brain
> activity.

Oh, fer chrissakes, Heidi. That's bullshit.

> It appears to me that the Chinese are far more logical
> and details oriented than the highly emotionally
> driven and often irrational Westerners.  ;-)