TY - JOUR
T1 - A straight nasal septum and right unilateral hypertrophied inferior nasal turbinate, a very rare anatomical phenomenon, in skilled language translators
T2 - Relevance to anomalous dominance, brain hemisphericity and second language acquisition
AU - Backon, Joshua
AU - Negeris, Benjamin
AU - Kurzon, Dennis
AU - Amit-Chochavi, Hanna
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - Research on second language acquisition has recently focused on the concept of brain hemisphericity. Since the nasal cycle indexes brain hemisphericity and a deviated nasal septum itself affected by structural brain dominance may prevent nasal cycling, we investigated the presence of septa deviation and inferior turbinate hypertrophy in 11 expert translators. We found that 10 of the 11 subjects demonstrated both a straight nasal septum and right unilateral inferior turbinate hypertrophy, an extremely rare anatomical phenomenon. The one-tailed binomial test was extremely significant (p < 0000001). This anatomical phenomenon, which can be noninvasiveiy checked in less than 30 seconds may predict excellence in second language acquisition.
AB - Research on second language acquisition has recently focused on the concept of brain hemisphericity. Since the nasal cycle indexes brain hemisphericity and a deviated nasal septum itself affected by structural brain dominance may prevent nasal cycling, we investigated the presence of septa deviation and inferior turbinate hypertrophy in 11 expert translators. We found that 10 of the 11 subjects demonstrated both a straight nasal septum and right unilateral inferior turbinate hypertrophy, an extremely rare anatomical phenomenon. The one-tailed binomial test was extremely significant (p < 0000001). This anatomical phenomenon, which can be noninvasiveiy checked in less than 30 seconds may predict excellence in second language acquisition.
KW - Anomalous brain dominance
KW - Brain hemisphericity
KW - Nasal cycle
KW - Nasal septum
KW - Second language acquisition
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U2 - 10.3109/00207459108985431
DO - 10.3109/00207459108985431
M3 - Article
C2 - 1365038
AN - SCOPUS:0026181895
SN - 0020-7454
VL - 58
SP - 157
EP - 163
JO - International Journal of Neuroscience
JF - International Journal of Neuroscience
IS - 3-4
ER -