Citation

Morikawa K, McBeath MK. Vision Res. 1992; 32(6): 1137-1141.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Stanford University, CA 94305-2130.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1509704

Abstract

We found that when Americans view ambiguous lateral long-range apparent motion, they exhibit a robust bias to experience leftward movement. In successive experiments, right-handers and left-handers, and left-side drivers from Japan equally manifested this leftward bias. However, bilingual viewers whose first language reads from right to left exhibited no lateral bias. Furthermore, the bilingual sample produced a significant correlation between exposure to English and extent of leftward motion bias. The findings provide strong evidence that reading habits can influence directionality in motion perception.

Language: en