Reading direction
Are you paying attention to reading direction?
Believe-me: it does matter!
Theologians are aware how important reading direction is. Can you imagine how different is reading a hebrew text from reading a greek one?
"Han and Northoff demonstrate that the brain and mind are not as universal as once believed; rather, they are shaped by our social cultural experience. Despite the breadth of the studies and cultures presented, cross-language differences deserve more mention. In particular, we would like to emphasize the role of written-script and reading direction on neurocognitive networks. [...]The written-script and thus the reading direction of a language have been found to influence several visual spatial tasks, such as the line bisection task, straight-ahead pointing and apparent-movement perception, as well as aesthetic-preference judgements and the perception of facial affect".
Moacir Gabriel
Theologian and Chemist
Specialist in Psychopedagogy and Neuroscience
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