"Michael M. Butler" <butler@comp-lib.org> writes:
> There has also been research (of quality unknown to me) that purportedly
> indicates that Japanese people process language and music in the same
> hemisphere. This has naturally (humans being humans) been used by some
> to declare superiority compared to Western thought processes.
I have seen studies showing that Han Chinese do have a different
language arrangement (cross-aphasia is much more common among them
than westeners, suggesting that theyb have language functions in both
hemispheres). Much is likely due to the ideographic writing
system. Japanese sometimes show alexia after brain damage either for
katakana/hiragana or kanji, showing that they have different
representations and likely lie in different hemispheres.
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