People Use Same Brain Regions to Read Alphabetic and Logographic Languages
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 18:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Learning to read Chinese might seem daunting to Westerners used to an alphabetic script, but brain scans of French and Chinese native speakers show that people harness the same brain centers for reading across cultures. The findings are published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . [More]