A tendency to perceive rightwards-placed stimuli as later seems to be implanted by sequential left-to-right reading habits. In forced-choice tasks it is assumed that there is no bias to a particular interval, particularly where it is cross-modal from the stimulus. However, with written alternatives in horizontal alignment this experiment showed such a bias for judgments of recency.
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