Rogers L, TenHouten W, Kaplan C D, Gardiner M
Int J Neurosci. 1977;8(1):1-6. doi: 10.3109/00207457709150368.
Electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings were obtained from electrode placements over the left and right frontal and parietal lobes of the brain in sixteen Hopi Indian children listening to tape recorded children's stories in the Hopi and English languages. Spectral analysis of the EEG data revealed that, for the parietal leads, alpha desynchronization was relatively greater over the right hemisphere for listening to Hopi than for listening to English, which indicates a greater right hemisphere participation in the processing of the Hopi speech. The results of the experiment are directionally consistent with our hypothesis, and imply that linguistic relativity may exist on a neurolinguistic level, such that languages can differ in the relative degree to which they serve as instruments of thought in a propositional, left hemisphere mode, or in an appositional, right hemisphere mode.
对16名霍皮族印第安儿童进行了脑电图（EEG）记录，电极置于大脑左右额叶和顶叶。这些儿童听着用霍皮语和英语录制的儿童故事磁带。脑电图数据的频谱分析显示，对于顶叶导联，听霍皮语时右半球的α波去同步化相对大于听英语时，这表明右半球在处理霍皮语语音时参与度更高。实验结果在方向上与我们的假设一致，意味着语言相对论可能存在于神经语言学层面，即不同语言在作为命题性左半球模式或并列性右半球模式下的思维工具时，其相对程度可能存在差异。
