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Recently heard on cogling:
Our mother tongue might influence the development of the brain circuits involved in processing numbers and arithmetic.
The writer included a link to this article in the online version of the venerable Nature magazine.
But isn't it accepted that learning affects brain development? If so then this observation would seem to follow pretty naturally. I can't help reading about premotor association results in the native Chinese speakers and thinking about abacuses. The other thing that springs to mind is the claim of a former associate, raised in Hong Kong until she was 13, who told me that Chinese often resort to a kind of hand-waving to resolve ambiguity when they speak, taking the form of "air calligraphy" on their palm to indicate which character they mean when uttering a potentially confusing homonym. This would seem consistent with an increased motor-oriented processing in general, not just because of number systems.
In turn the thought of "air-calligraphy" brings to mind an old chestnut written by Gregory Bateson, "Why do Frenchmen..." which casually explored cultural difference in gestural support for speech communication. It would be interesting to see the results of similar studies aimed more generally at these gestural distinctions.
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