Journal #1

[Yian Xu]

In chapter How Brain Handles Language, I found it was very interesting that the left hemisphere is usually dominant for language in right-handed people, but right hemisphere is not always dominant for language in left-hander. The reason I thought it was interesting is that I was a left-handed kid before age six. However, in China, left-handed people are usually found it difficult to live due to the fact that most of common tools are designed for right-handed people, so a lot of parents force their left-handed children to convert to right-handed. And so did my parents. Thus, I am both a right-handed person and a left-handed person. In the essay, Crystal mentioned that different hemispheres were specialized in different areas which might all be involved in language study. So, whether people like me, who are both left-hander and right-hander, have advantage in learning language?