Your reading habits can dictate how you play sports

For a goalkeeper in the Japanese J-League, the split-second decision to dive left or right is often a matter of literacy rather than logic. Research into these athletes reveals a seventy percent bias toward diving to the left, a quirk that stems from the traditional right-to-left reading direction of the Japanese language. While European keepers typically split their dives evenly, the cultural habit of scanning information from right to left creates a subconscious comfort with leftward movement.