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I wonder if this happens in ideogram-based languages, such as Chinese

• hatthew 2y ago
  hmm, do you have some hypothesis as to why that would make a difference?
  • tomcam 2y ago
    No! For example, I’m a terrible artist, but I don’t think in words. So I think images, but it doesn’t cross over to my aesthetic abilities. But I wonder if the process of building up words from phonemes or syllables in your mind somehow maps differently from doing it with ideograms.
  • sophacles 2y ago
    I could probably come up with a bunch of plausible reasons it would make a difference, and a bunch for why it wouldn't. Seems like a good question to ask for that reason alone... it strikes me as the type of datapoint that would allow researchers to narrow in on what's going on in the brains of people who experience it.