This little-understood brain region uniquely adapts to different written languages in bilingual people.
, researchers examined how bilinguals process their respective languages in written form. They discovered that a part of the brain called the Visual Word Form Area activates differently for English-Chinese speakers compared to English-French speakers.
“My initial impression of [the study] is that it’s a real tour de force methodologically and in terms of design it’s comprehensive, thorough and ambitious,” says Meanwhile, the brains of the ten English-Chinese speakers reacted very differently when shown Chinese characters. In this group, Chinese was the dominant language. When the researchers scanned the brains of these participants, they found distinct activity: Chinese-specific clusters of neurons in the VWFA.Previously, pinpointing specific areas of brain activity challenged researchers.
Another explanation has more to do with language structure. Chinese, like Japanese and some Korean, is logographic. These writing systems use characters that correspond to concepts, ideas, and words. Phonetic languages, like English and French, use characters that correspond to sounds.Most Chinese characters give few clues as to how they are read. New learners, including Chinese children,, which uses the Latin alphabet to spell out sounds of Standard Chinese characters.
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