Table 1.

Number of participants by starting position and direction of first movement for counting the square display for Experiment 1.

	Starting position				First movement
	Left		Right		Horizontal		Vertical
Group	Top	Bottom	Top	Bottom	Left–right	Right–left	Bottom–top	Top–bottom
British
Children	13	22	6	29	24	15	26	5
Adults	80	2	3	5	77	3	4	6
HK-Chinese
Children	61	7	7	10	54	5	11	15
Adults	81	3	12	3	76	4	2	17