Re: Writing Systems and Biscriptal Children

For a good review of what is and isn't known about real hemispheric
differences, see _The Right Mind_ by Robert Ornstein.  He was one of
the first popularizers of hemispheric difference discoveries in brain
science, and he was somewhat appalled to watch the way speculation
about them spiralled out of control for several decades.  He stopped
writing about them for twenty years or so until he wrote this book,
which is intended to provide a sort of update on the current state of
research.  (Warning: it does contain some speculation about the nature
of alphabets and brain function, some of which has been pronounced
"sounds bogus to me" by eminent list-members.  But it's a good book.
:)



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Grandsire, C.A. wrote:

> nicole perrin wrote:
> >
>
> [snip all the things about the book]
>
>         Did he speak of the left-handed people? They are supposed to be
more
> balanced in the way they use their brain hemispheres, as opposed to the
> right-handed people who are more left-oriented, and that whatever script
> they use or sex they are. I generally don't buy the things about the
> brain hemispheres and such, but this I do, as the fact that the right
> hemisphere is the hemisphere for rational thinking and the left
> hemisphere is for abstract and creative thinking (in fact, I am
> left-handed and I like to think that I am creative also thanks to that.
> Thus I find it easier to live in a world dominated by right-handed
> people :) ).
>