From the article:
...said lead author Li-Hai Tan, a professor of linguistics and brain
and cognitive sciences at the University of Hong Kong. "Our finding
yields neurobiological clues to the cause of dyslexia."
Actually rather more than that I suspect, but not sure why she doesn't...
From the article:
Millions of children worldwide are affected by dyslexia, a
language-based learning disability that can include problems in
reading, spelling, writing and pronouncing words. The International
Dyslexia Association says there is no consensus on the exact number
because not all children are screened, but estimates range from 8
percent to 15 percent of students.
Learning disability? Dyslexics learn things just fine. They just
have trouble reading and writing, tasks that haven't been necessary
for human survival until quite recently! Therefore the high
percentage in the population if it is genetic...
I think that actual brain structure of the recently evolved language
portion of the brain is what is being illuminated!
Interesting that language types cause changes in brain structure
regardless, since there once was a school of Anthropology that spoke
to the general impression that different language groups engendered
different "personalities". Hence, Culture and Personality - why do we
think of Germans as "efficient", Brits as uptight, Italians as having
tempers, etc.
Maybe there is something here after all!
