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September 25, 2005
Chapter 2
Question #3
Kana, the phonetic language, would eb more affectd by left brain damage and Kanji, the symbolic language would be more affected by right brain damage. The left brain deals more with the verbal aspects and therefore a phonetic language like Kana or English would be hard to read if there's damage. When reading a phonetic language, the brain actually still sounds out the words in order to comprehend the reading. The right brain is more visual and would help read a symbolic language like Kanji and therefore if damaged, it would be quite difficult to make sense of the symbols.
-Jessica F.
Posted by lcisfaria at September 25, 2005 03:01 PM