This book explores the connection between the way the brain functions and how written language is perceived. Disparities between the way that Japanese kana and kanji are processed is one of the main themes of this text. Since the Japanese writing system uses three – or arguably four – different scripts with both phonetic and ideographic components, it is an excellent chance to understand the interaction between reading and writing.

The most interesting part of this book is its description of how dyslexics process textual information differently from other readers. Citing Marshall's (1982) study of dyslexic and non-dyslexic readers, the authors suggest that most Japanese readers use a variety of text processing strategies. Dyslexics, by contrast, appear to have a narrow repertory of only one or two strategies.

This work also provides a comprehensive description of the Japanese writing system. Contrasting ideographic characters with those which are semantically opaque, they cite evidence suggesting most people tend to use their left visual field when encountering complex kanji and their right visual field when viewing phonetic characters or simple kanji.

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