Depictive expressions of thought predate written language by thousands of years. They
have evolved in communities through a kind of informal user testing that has refined them …

The standard participant in cognitive research on the bilingual mental lexicon is literate in
English and some other European language written in the same (Latin) script, ie, in a shared …

Perceptual asymmetries under free-viewing conditions were investigated in 24 normal
dextral adults. Three tasks were administered that required participants to chose between a …

Becoming literate has been argued to have a range of social, economic and psychological
effects. Less examined is the extent to which repercussions of becoming literate may vary as …

Judgments of relative magnitude between the left and right sides of a stimulus are generally
weighted toward the features contained on the left side. This leftward perceptual bias could …

The current study documents the presence of cultural differences in the development of
finger counting strategies. About 900 Middle Eastern (ie, Iranian) and Western (ie, European …

Are aesthetic preferences associated with directional reading/writing habits or with cerebral
laterality? To answer this question, 138 right-handed and non-right-handed Arabic, Hebrew …

Spatial thought is not an internalized video of experience but rather a construction carved
out of experience. Objects, categories, orderings: These constructive processes sharpen …

Several non-verbal perceptual and attentional processes have been linked with
specialization of the right cerebral hemisphere. Given that most people have a left …

Although the population-level preference for the use of the right hand is the clearest
example of behavioral lateralization, it represents only the best-known instance of a variety …