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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Cultural routines, like reading direction, shape attentional biases.
  • Language habits influence how attention is oriented, either left-to-right (LR) or right-to-left (RL).
  • The spatial grounding of time concepts may interact with these established directional biases.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how script direction (LR vs. RL) and the spatial representation of time influence visuomotor performance.
  • To test if temporal word cues (future/past) interact with target location in Portuguese (LR) and Arabic (RL) speakers.
  • To examine the role of visual and auditory temporal cues on attention and decision-making.

Main Methods:

  • A spatial cueing task was employed with Portuguese (LR) and Arabic (RL) participants.
  • Temporal words (future/past) served as visual and auditory cues.
  • Measures included discrimination decision speed and initial eye-gaze movement (gaze tracking).

Main Results:

  • A significant interaction between target location and time concepts was observed across both languages and modalities.
  • LR speakers showed faster detection of right-side targets after future cues and left-side targets after past cues.
  • RL speakers exhibited faster detection of left-side targets after future cues and right-side targets after past cues, with eye movements confirming attentional shifts.

Conclusions:

  • Writing habits significantly shape scanning regularities and attentional orientation towards time concepts.
  • The spatial directionality of reading influences the visuomotor processing of temporal information.
  • Bodily grounded categorical features, like script direction, play a crucial role in cognitive processing.