READING difficulties can be traced to different parts of the brain in Chinese and Western children, scientists have said.
In China, dyslexia appears to have a different physical origin because the language is symbol rather than alphabet-based.
The discovery casts doubt on the widespread assumption that dyslexia has a universal cause.
A team of scientists scanned the brains of 16 dyslexic Chinese children as they performed various language-based tasks.
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