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The human brain contains a region specialized for recognizing written words, the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA). Recent work suggests that bilinguals who read very different scripts may use distinct parts of this region, but the evidence remains limited.
This study conducts an fMRI experiment with 41 Japanese–English bilinguals, comparing not only English and Japanese but also two scripts within Japanese, kanji and katakana. By identifying script-selective subregions for each individual, it captures differences that conventional group-averaged analyses tend to obscure—an original contribution that bridges linguistics and neuroscience.
With further validation, including larger samples for some subregions, this work promises to deepen our understanding of how writing systems shape the neural basis of reading.
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