Professor in the University: Division of Chinese language and perception mechanisms in the brain

China University of science and technology research group study finds language sensing mechanisms of brain Division, in the sound into the secret ear after about two hundred milliseconds of early Chinese tone cognitive stages, mainly relies on the right hemisphere of the brain, brain, like music. The results will help scientists to right-brain injury or deaf Chinese patients seek more effective means of diagnosis and rehabilitation.

It is learnt that the study results published in today's world renowned academic journals in the United States Academy of law. The journal reviewers pointed out: "this work took advantage of the characteristics of the Chinese have a voice, to address language and long-term cognitive processing fields exist in a controversy contributed." "It has filled in on the brain's cognitive stage how to deal with the language of a blank, with important theoretical significance".

Research Professor Chen Lin, head of the human brain hemisphere in handling sound signal be Division, but what factors determine the different Division of the brain, the left is the academic term confused challenges and formed two completely different hypothesis. Acoustic hypothesis that decision cerebral hemisphere superiority is auditory signals with acoustic properties, has nothing to do with the signal function; function hypothesis is that the decision of cerebral hemisphere superiority is auditory signals, and signals the acoustic properties.

Thus, the group led by Prof. Chen Lin subtly use Chinese tone is similar to music and at the same time bring semantic features found in earlier acoustic hypothesis that stage is set up before the cognitive and functional hypothesis in the late stages of cognition of note is established.

He said that, according to two levels of auditory perception model, in that phase, right brain based auditory acoustic characteristics and entered into a deal with Chinese tone of dominant hemisphere; in that period, only the left brain based auditory input semantics function into processing the dominant hemisphere Chinese tone. Research at the prompt, Mandarin Chinese that Westerners more frequent use of the right hemisphere, should pay more attention to developing the right brain potential.