Reading direction and the central perceptual span in Urdu and English.

BACKGROUND: Normal reading relies on the reader making a series of saccadic eye movements along lines of text, separated by brief fixational pauses during which visual information is acquired from a region of text. In English and other alphabetic languages read from left to right, the region from wh...

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Main Authors: Kevin B Paterson, Victoria A McGowan, Sarah J White, Sameen Malik, Lily Abedipour, Timothy R Jordan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3934859?pdf=render