Sunday, December 24, 2006

Chinese listen by right hemisphere, Europeans - by left

The left and right hemispheres of human brain fulfill their functions with the discernment of external it is sonic. Usually left hemisphere has an advantage in understanding of language, and right - better fitted out to the perception of music.


What factors do determine the differences between them? This question has already long ago been complex problem for the scientific it is circular. Two different points of view predominate at the present moment.


Research group under the management professor chen' Linya from the institute of the science about the life with the Chinese scientific and technical university was occupied by the study of the special features of perception by the Chinese of the tones of its language.


During the work they was succeeded in proving that in the early stage of discernment - 200 milliseconds after the penetration of sound into the ear - the analysis of the tones of the Chinese Language it is achieved by a right hemisphere, i.e., accurately also, as this occurs with the perception of music.


Simultaneously the results of the conducted investigation showed that the Chinese more frequently use a right hemisphere than people in the West, which speak in English.


The results of this work, writes newspaper "zhen'min' zhibao", were published on 19 December in the journal "transactions of the National Academy of Sciences".

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