Re: Visual comprehension and reading

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From: Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:26

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Heidi Graw wrote:

> Right brain...feeling and "big picture" oriented.
> Left brain...logic and details oriented.

Really?

> Remember that the left side of the body is commandeered by
> the right side of the brain, just as the right side of the body
> is controlled by the left side of the brain.

But the signals in the right half of _each_ eye go the right half of the 
brain.

> So, to read from left to right, top to bottom, it's a right
> brain activity.

Why?
If you read, you have each letter in the focus of your eyes, i.e. in the 
center. This is independent of the direction of motion. Remember, half 
of the center goes to right brain, the other half to the left brain.

So maybe, in reading from left to right, our brain "pre-reads" right of 
the focus. But why should the information go to the left brain, if I 
read top to bottom?

Besides, reading is always mainly a left brain activity, language 
(vocabulary) is in the left brain.

Helmut Wollmersdorfer

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From: Helmut Wollmersdorfer <helmut@wollmersdorfer.at>
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