April R S, Tse P C
Arch Neurol. 1977 Dec;34(12):766-70. doi: 10.1001/archneur.1977.00500240054009.
A persistent nonfluent aphasia following a right cerebral infarction developed in a 54-year-old right-handed Chinese man. Computerized axial tomography localized the lesion in the distribution of the right middle cerebral artery. The speech and language dysfunction was greater for performances in Chinese than in English, despite the fact that the patient was born in China, was schooled in Chinese until age 7, and spoke Chinese at home and in his business. It is suggested that early learning of Chinese, an ideographic language based on visual spatial percepts, might have been critical for the establishment and maintenance of language dominance in the right hemisphere.
一名54岁右利手中国男性在右侧脑梗死发作后出现持续性非流畅性失语。计算机断层扫描将病灶定位在右侧大脑中动脉分布区。尽管该患者在中国出生，7岁前接受中文教育，在家及工作中都说中文，但他说中文时的言语和语言功能障碍比说英文时更严重。这表明早期学习中文这种基于视觉空间感知的表意文字，可能对右侧半球语言优势的建立和维持至关重要。
