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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Language has rules about how words in a sentence modify other words in a sentence. We’ve learned to read left to right, and when we see those words that modify others, we can properly map them to the right thing in the sentence. If you start reading it backwards, then suddenly those mappings need to be retrained.
With something like visualizing an object, there isn’t the same structured rules to it, so it can be processed in any way.
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