Here's an fMRI study of reading Japanese Hiragana (phonetic), Kanji (logographic) and English as the reader's second language. They all activate different regi

Here's an fMRI study of reading Japanese Hiragana (phonetic), Kanji (logographic) and English as the reader's second language. They all activate different regions of the brain and clearly are being processed in different ways. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2782536/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2782536/