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| Maecenas23 Triglot Newbie Ukraine Joined 4616 days ago 21 posts - 56 votes  Speaks: Ukrainian*, Russian, English Studies: German | Message 1 of 1 13 May 2013 at 2:13pm | IP Logged |
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I've noticed recently a strange peculiarity about the physiognomy of prominent
polyglots. Most of them seem to have a facial asymmetry with the left part of their faces significantly bigger than their right hemiface. I tried to seek some scientific explanation to this, but was confused by diiferent sorts of information. It seems logically to assume that people with linguistic talent may have some brain asymmetry, which shows itself in different laterality of bodily parts. And while left brain controls right side of the body, it controls left side of the face, thus left side of the face looks more developed and bigger. Some articles that I found are interesting but somewhat embarrassing.One of them states that humanities students show right face bias, and physics and math students - left face bias.http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/0898929 98563077 Women on average are supposed to be better language learners and this article states that they are mostly right - faced.http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/713754376#. UZDUJLXvg24 What do you think about all this? P.S.If you want to find out which part of your face is dominant , this site will help: http://www.symmeter.com/symfacer.htm It's interesting that the face on the cover of the famous book "Babel No More" have a strong right face dominance.http://www.michaelerard.com/media-kit/babel-no-mor e- cover/ (sorry for my English) Edited by Maecenas23 on 13 May 2013 at 9:17pm 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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