Why is it you can get understanding of someone’s face by moving your eyes over it left to right or right to left, but written English is only intelligible read left to right?

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Why is it you can get understanding of someone’s face by moving your eyes over it left to right or right to left, but written English is only intelligible read left to right?

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Humans are designed from birth (through evolution) to be extremely good at recognizing faces. That’s why we see faces in so many places like in burnt toast, in a water stain, in a mountain range, the list goes on forever. We are not designed to understand written language, we need to learn it.

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