Tânia Fernandes|M. Arunkumar|Falk Huettig
The role of the written script in shaping mirror-image discrimination: Evidence from illiterate, Tamil literate, and Tamil-Latin-alphabet bi-literate adults
University of Lisbon|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Radboud University Nijmegen
learning script mirrored graphs eg b requires overcoming evolutionaryold perceptual tendency process mirror images equivalent thus breaking mirror invariance offers important tool understanding cultural reshaping evolutionarily ancient cognitive mechanisms investigated role script ie presence vs absence mirrored graphs latin alphabet vs tamil revisiting mirrorimage processing illiterate tamil monoliterate tamillatinalphabet biliterate adults participants performed two samedifferent tasks one orientationbased another shapebased latinalphabet letters tamil monoliterate significantly better illiterate showed good explicit mirrorimage discrimination however biliterate adults fully broke mirror invariance slower shapebased judgments mirrored identical pairs reduced disadvantage orientationbased shapebased judgments mirrored pairs findings suggest learning script mirrored graphs strongest force breaking mirror invariance