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Show "'Right Eyed' Pass Best Reading Test Trick Mirror Used in Tests To Learn Sight Defects. EUGENE, ORE. To be right-eyed right-eyed makes reading easier. Furthermore, this advantage is so marked that being left-eyed largely accounts for many persons, particularly particu-larly children, being defective readers. read-ers. " Right-eyed or vice versa means that one or the other eye is used mainly in the work of seeing. Most persons, In using their eyes, favor one, much the same as being right 'or left-handed, although the eyes do not necessarily class the same as the hands. . The discoveries about the effect ol eyedness on reading were made by Dr. H. R. Crosland, associate professor pro-fessor of psychology. University of Oregon. A mirror device showed what was happening. In the mirror there was flashed a short line of printed matter. Each flash lasted one-eighth of a second, just long enough to be seen clearly. The lines, however, were not full length. Each contained some letters let-ters grouped in one of three positions, posi-tions, either at the left end where printing starts, in the middle, or near the end of the line. The mirror could be used so that only one eye at a time could see these Sashed lines. When this was done the right-eyed persons saw the left, or starting-line side, most clearly. In reading, these eye habits would mean that right-eyed persons could a little more easily and quickly read the, .start -of each line. |