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Direct linkBuchweitz, Augusto; Mason, Robert A.; Hasegawa, Mihoko; Just, Marcel A. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to compare brain activation from native Japanese (L1) readers reading hiragana (syllabic) and kanji (logographic) sentences, and English as a second language (L2). Kanji showed more activation than hiragana in right-hemisphere occipito-temporal lobe areas associated with visuospatial…
Descriptors: Japanese, English (Second Language), Sentences, Reading Comprehension
Weekes, Brendan Stuart; Su, I. Fan; Yin, Wengang; Zhang, Xihong – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2007
Cognitive neuropsychological studies of bilingual patients with aphasia have contributed to our understanding of how the brain processes different languages. The question we asked is whether differences in script have any impact on language processing in bilingual aphasic patients who speak languages with different writing systems: Chinese and…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Aphasia, Foreign Countries, Brain
