Enantiomorphy through the looking glass: literacy effects on mirror-image discrimination.

R Kolinsky, A Verhaeghe, T Fernandes… - Journal of …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
To examine whether enantiomorphy (ie, the ability to discriminate lateral mirror images) is
influenced by the acquisition of a written system that incorporates mirrored letters (eg, b and …

From hand to eye: The role of literacy, familiarity, graspability, and vision-for-action on enantiomorphy

T Fernandes, R Kolinsky - Acta psychologica, 2013 - Elsevier
Literacy in a script with mirrored symbols boosts the ability to discriminate mirror images, ie,
enantiomorphy. In the present study we evaluated the impact of four factors on …

Literacy breaks mirror invariance for visual stimuli: a behavioral study with adult illiterates.

F Pegado, K Nakamura, LW Braga… - Journal of …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
The ability to recognize 2 mirror images as the same picture across left–right inversions
exists early on in humans and other primates. In order to learn to read, however, one must …

The role of the written script in shaping mirror-image discrimination: Evidence from illiterate, Tamil literate, and Tamil-Latin-alphabet bi-literate adults

T Fernandes, M Arunkumar, F Huettig - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Learning a script with mirrored graphs (eg, d≠ b) requires overcoming the evolutionary-old
perceptual tendency to process mirror images as equivalent. Thus, breaking mirror …

The cost of blocking the mirror generalization process in reading: Evidence for the role of inhibitory control in discriminating letters with lateral mirror-image …

G Borst, E Ahr, M Roell, O Houdé - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2015 - Springer
Mirror generalization is detrimental for identifying letters with lateral mirror-image
counterparts ('b/d'). In the present study, we investigated whether the discrimination of this …

The influence of reading expertise in mirror‐letter perception: Evidence from beginning and expert readers

JA Duñabeitia, M Dimitropoulou… - Mind, Brain, and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The visual word recognition system recruits neuronal systems originally developed for object
perception which are characterized by orientation insensitivity to mirror reversals. It has …

A cultural side effect: Learning to read interferes with identity processing of familiar objects

R Kolinsky, T Fernandes - Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Based on the neuronal recycling hypothesis (Dehaene and Cohen,), we examined whether
reading acquisition has a cost for the recognition of non-linguistic visual materials. More …

The mirror reflects more for d than for b: Right asymmetry bias on the visual recognition of words containing reversal letters

AP Soares, A Lages, H Oliveira, J Hernández - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Research has shown that recognizing words that contain reversal letters (eg, b/d) is more
difficult than recognizing words that do not contain them. Although none of the current …

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 …

Mirrors are hard to break: A critical review and behavioral evidence on mirror-image processing in developmental dyslexia

T Fernandes, I Leite - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
The relation between reversal errors (eg, d for b, Я for R) and developmental dyslexia has
been elusive. In this study, we investigated the roles of reading level, visual category, and …