Developmental mirror-writing is paralleled by orientation recognition errors

RD McIntosh, K Hillary, A Brennan… - … : Asymmetries of Body …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The writing attempts of children often feature mirror-reversals of individual letters. These
reversals are thought to arise from an adaptive tendency to mirror-generalize. However, it is …

Mirror writing in pre-school children: A pilot study

R Cubelli, S Della Sala - Cognitive Processing, 2009 - Springer
Mirror writing refers to the production of individual letters, whole words or sentences in
reverse direction. Unintentional mirror writing has been observed in young children learning …

Dynamics of mirror writing compared to conventional writing in typical preliterate children

M Portex, C Hélin, C Ponce, JN Foulin - Reading and Writing, 2018 - Springer
In left-to-right writing cultures, spontaneous mirror writing of letters and digits in preliterate
children appears more frequently on left-than right-facing characters. A compelling theory …

Mirror writing in 5-to 6-year-old children: The preferred hand is not the explanation

JP Fischer, AM Koch - Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Non-pathological, spontaneous mirror writing, whether complete or partial, has long been
associated with writing with the left hand and attributed to the fact that abductive writing …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial biases in processing mirror letters by literate subjects

K Patro, A Gross, C Friedrich - Reading and Writing, 2024 - Springer
Preschool children often confuse letters with their mirror images when they try to read and
write. Mirror confusion seems to occur more often in line with the direction of script (eg, left-to …

Unraveling the mystery of mirror writing in typically developing children.

JP Fischer, Y Tazouti - Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Most studies of mirror writing have focused on specific populations (eg, pathological cases)
or conditions (eg, right-handed individuals writing with their left hand); hence, many simple …

Mirror writing in typically developing children: A first longitudinal study

JP Fischer, AM Koch - Cognitive Development, 2016 - Elsevier
The present study examined the development of mirror writing in typically developing
children using a longitudinal design involving 166 children initially aged 4–5 years. The …

Ipsilateral printing in children's mirror-writing: A cause of specific learning disabilities?

DS Mather - Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Les recherches antérieures ont démontré que les jeunes enfants produisent des inversions
de lettres en miroir lorsqu'ils écrivent leur nom de droite à gauche à partir du centre ou de la …

[HTML][HTML] On the legibility of mirror-reflected and rotated text

G Erlikhman, L Strother, I Barzakov, GP Caplovitz - Symmetry, 2017 - mdpi.com
We happened to observe that text that was reflected about either the horizontal or vertical
axis was more difficult to read than text that was reflected about first one and then the other …

Breaking the symmetry: Mirror discrimination for single letters but not for pictures in the Visual Word Form Area

F Pegado, K Nakamura, L Cohen, S Dehaene - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Humans and primates can quickly recognize mirror images of previously exposed pictures.
This spontaneous mirror invariance, though advantageous for visual recognition, makes it …