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Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 6:24 AM
Subject: [Nostratica] Re: [Fwd:
[evol-psych] Brain buzz that proves Chinese is har...
> It has been known for a long time that music and words
>
get processed in different hemispheres. Apparently tonal
> languages
also require (like music) the other hemisphere.
>
Now what does
that do to Chinese opera (I'm not even sure I know what
that question
means)?
Torsten
Indeed, that must cause the right and left brain
lobes to go "wild"! The Mandarin written language requires thought
processes from both l and r lobes. Then add opera to the equation (or
any other musical endeavor) and we have supersonic brain connections. Is
this what you mean?