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THE PHENOMENON OF MIRROR WRITING
Post Views: 2,295 Mirror-writing or reverse writing is the production of letters, words or sentences in reverse direction so that they look normal when viewed in a mirror. This writing is seen amongst healthy individuals; it is also associated with various focal lesions that most commonly involve the left hemisphere of the brain, as well as with certain diffuse cerebral disorders. Some people may mirror-write intentionally, but unintentional mirror-writing is surprisingly common amongst young kids and in brain-damaged adults. Unintentional mirror-writing indicates a tension between a tendency for our brains to treat mirror-images as equivalent. This article delves the various manifestations of mirror-writing, and the concepts put forward to account…