Lateral biases and reading direction: A dissociation between aesthetic preference and line bisection
Lateral biases and reading direction: A dissociation between aesthetic preference and line bisection
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DOI：
10.1016/j.bandc.2010.12.005
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发表时间：
2011-04-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Imai, Hisato
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作者：
Ishii, Yukiko;Okubo, Matia;Imai, Hisato
涉及审美偏好或线平分的任务的感知不对称性可能受到不对称的神经机制或左/右阅读习惯的影响。本研究调查了100名日语和英语读者的这些机制的相对贡献。受试者在两幅镜像颠倒的图片之间进行审美判断，图片显示：（a）静态物体，（B）移动物体和（c）风景。还进行了线平分任务。静态和移动的物体的阅读方向有很强的影响，日本读者更喜欢从右到左的方向性的物体（英语读者反之亦然）。与此相反，类似的模式，观察到日本和英语读者的景观和线平分任务。结果表明，阅读习惯影响静态和移动物体任务的审美判断，但不影响风景和线平分任务。任务之间的差异可能与刺激的水平/垂直几何形状有关，这使得横向和线平分任务更容易产生与大脑优势相关的普遍效应。(C)2010年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
Perceptual asymmetries for tasks involving aesthetic preference or line bisection can be affected by asymmetrical neurological mechanisms or left/right reading habits. This study investigated the relative contribution of these mechanisms in 100 readers of Japanese and English. Participants made aesthetic judgments between pairs of mirror-reversed pictures showing: (a) static objects, (b) moving objects and (c) landscapes. A line bisection task was also administered. There was a strong effect of reading direction for static and mobile objects whereby Japanese readers preferred objects with a right-to-left directionality (and vice versa for English readers). In contrast, similar patterns were observed for the Japanese and English readers for the landscape and line bisection tasks. The results show that reading habits affect aesthetic judgments for static and moving object tasks, but not the landscape and line bisection tasks. The difference between the tasks may be related to the horizontal/vertical geometry of the stimuli, which makes the landscape and line bisection tasks more prone to universal effects related to cerebral dominance. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.