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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
