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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Reading direction varies across writing systems, leading to reader visual system adaptations.
  • Neural mechanisms underlying these adaptations are poorly understood due to confounding visual and linguistic properties of writing systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate how dominant reading direction shapes neural visual word processing.
  • Examine the influence of reading direction experience on visual processing using Chinese readers from Taiwan and mainland China.

Main Methods:

  • Combined electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracking.
  • Employed saccade-contingent parafoveal preview manipulation during 5-word list reading.
  • Analyzed fixation-related potentials (FRPs) to assess neural responses.

Main Results:

  • Valid previews facilitate visual word processing, evidenced by reduced FRP activation.
  • A reduced late N1 effect (preview positivity) was observed in FRPs.
  • This facilitation effect was modulated by prior experience with a specific reading direction.

Conclusions:

  • Provides the first neuroelectric evidence that visual word processing facilitation depends on reading direction experience.
  • Demonstrates how cultural experience and everyday visual input shape neural processing of parafoveal information.
  • Offers insights into the brain's adaptability to different reading directions and its impact on visual cognition.