Reading habits and line bisection: a developmental approach.
120 normal right-handed subjects, children and adults, with opposite reading habits (60 French, left-to-right readers, 60 Israeli, right-to-left readers) and 60 pre-school children (30 French and 30 Israeli), were submitted to a visuo-motor bisection task. Bisection is found to be dependent upon reading habits with a leftward deviation of the subjective middle for left-to-right readers, and a rightward bias for right-to-left readers. Even before formal reading learning, French and Israeli pre-school children differ significantly in bisecting a line. Results are discussed with respect to hemispheric activation theories and directional hypotheses.
Chokron
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Fondation Ophtalmologique Rothschild, Université de Savoie, Jacob Bellecombette, Chambery, France. chokron@ext.jussieu.fr
De Agostini
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006184:Habits; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D011932:Reading