| The talk explained the reader’s adaptation to bidirectional orthography. Typically orthographies are consistent in terms of in which direction they are read, i.e. either from left-to-right or right-to-left. However, some orthography are bidirectional, meaning that certain parts of the text, such as numerals in Urdu, are read against the default reading direction. Such sudden changes in reading direction may challenge the reader in many ways, at the level of planning of saccadic eye movements, changing the direction of attention, word recognition processes and cognitive reading strategies. Therefore, the study (first of its kind) investigated, how readers achieve sudden changes in reading direction at the level of eye movements and conscious cognitive reading strategies. |
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