This doesn't surprise me because I remember reading about how speakers of different languages process text differently. For example, given a passage of text an

This doesn't surprise me because I remember reading about how speakers of different languages process text differently. For example, given a passage of text and a simple task (Count the number of occurrences of the letter "e" in the text) people who's first language is French will frequently undercount, because they have become accustomed to the letter e being elided in many places in their native language. This was set as a task for a group of us during a diversity training at Goldman. It so happend I was in a group that included a couple of French quant phds. You can imagine their extreme bewilderment by miscounting in such a simple task, but this error seems to be a heuristic that is somehow wired into the perception of words when learning to read. Having accepted that speakers of different languages understand visual information in text differently, it seems not to be that big a leap to accept that visual memory would also work differently.