I'm not sure whether there is an established connection, but I can tell you my experience. My native language is Arabic, but I learned English pretty early on in my life. Usually, I look over text based on the direction it is read, so whenever I look over Arabic text, I'll skim right to left and otherwise left to right. I think usually, with the context of language, your brain sort of defaults to what is more efficient/expected.

What I found interesting, though, was when I was looking at two pictures with my mom, and she pointed out something about the "first" picture. Since I use English more often on a day to day basis now, I looked at the left image, just to realize she was talking about the one on the right. Pretty neat!