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We studied this question by comparing a visual capacity in the left and right visual hemifields in people habitually reading scripts written right\u2010to\u2010left or left\u2010to\u2010right.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Selective visual attention is necessary for efficient visual search and also for the sequential recognition of letters in words. Because such attentional allocation during reading depends on the direction in which one is reading, asymmetries in search efficiency may reflect biases arising from the habitual direction of reading. We studied this by examining search performance in three cohorts: (a) left\u2010to\u2010right readers who read English fluently; (b) right\u2010to\u2010left readers fluent in reading Farsi but not any left\u2010to\u2010right script; and (c) bilingual readers fluent in English and in Farsi, Arabic, or Hebrew. 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