Morikawa K, McBeath M K
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, CA 94305-2130.
Vision Res. 1992 Jun;32(6):1137-41. doi: 10.1016/0042-6989(92)90014-a.
We found that when Americans view ambiguous lateral long-range apparent motion, they exhibit a robust bias to experience leftward movement. In successive experiments, right-handers and left-handers, and left-side drivers from Japan equally manifested this leftward bias. However, bilingual viewers whose first language reads from right to left exhibited no lateral bias. Furthermore, the bilingual sample produced a significant correlation between exposure to English and extent of leftward motion bias. The findings provide strong evidence that reading habits can influence directionality in motion perception.
我们发现，当美国人观看模糊的横向远距离表观运动时，他们表现出强烈的向左运动的偏向。在后续实验中，右撇子和左撇子，以及来自日本的左侧驾车者同样表现出这种向左的偏向。然而，母语从右向左读的双语者没有表现出横向偏向。此外，双语样本中接触英语的程度与向左运动偏向的程度之间存在显著相关性。这些发现提供了有力证据，表明阅读习惯会影响运动感知中的方向性。
