Chinese use more right brain than westeners: Chinese scientists

Chinese scientists have discovered that Chinese use more right brain than Westerners due to the tonetic feature of the Chinese language.

Chinese use tone-sensitive right brains to process the tonetic changes of Chinese words in the early 200 milliseconds before left brain get in to treat the associate meaning, researchers with the University of Science and Technology of China said.

The processing of the Chinese language tones by left brain is similar to the way that music is handled. But most of the western languages, with only one tone for each word, are directly processed by the left brain, the researchers said.

"The study has revealed the work division of the two hemispheres of the human brain in processing languages, which will be conducive to the diagnosis and treatment of the Chinese patients suffering from the right brain damage or deafness," said Professor Chen Lin, who leads the research team.

The study has also indicated that great attention should be paid to the potential of Chinese people's right brains.

The result of the study was published on the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Scientists have discovered that each side of the brain has its unique and special abilities. The right side of the brain is intuitive, while the left side of the brain is logical.

Generally, every single Chinese character has four tones, each associate with different meanings. The complicated tonetic change is an important reason that makes Chinese one of the most difficult languages in the world. .

Source: Xinhua