Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China found that Chinese people use more of their right brain than do people of Western countries.

Describing the reason behind the findings researchers revealed that Chinese use the tone-sensitive right brains to process the tonetic changes of Chinese words in the early 200 milliseconds before the left brain joins to associate the meaning.

Chen Lin, the lead researcher, told Xinhua news agency, "the study has revealed the work division of the two hemispheres of the human brain in processing languages, which will be conducive to the diagnosis and treatment of the Chinese patients suffering from the right brain damage or deafness."

Researchers have reported their finding in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

Researchers have long known that each side of the brain has special abilities, the right side is intuitive, while the left side is logical.