The reading of amino acid sheet music and its alphabet, including newly developed Japanese alphabets and others, links to mismatch negativity and dyslexia. The amino acid sequences of dyslexia-specific genes can also be played as music.
Mismatch Negativity
Mismatch negativity - Wikipedia
'Our definition of "Chinese" has important implications for understanding the nature, functioning and utility of the character writing system, as will become evident in later chapters. There are also social and political dimensions to the problem....The only thing preventing pinyin from achieving full status as a recognized alternative writing system is a well-founded fear by Chinese traditionalists that, given a chance to compete on equal terms, the system would eventually marginalize the sphere of character usage to classical studies and decorative artifacts, as happened in Vietnam. If history is any guide, this will eventually happen, perhaps sooner than many realize.'
(Hannas, Asia's Orthographic Dilemma, pp. 24-5)
As Hannas mentions in the book, there are German underpinnings in Chinese language, so to begin withy, we use this example from a German study of 2017:
'Dyslexia is a specific learning disorder affecting reading and spelling abilities. Its prevalence is ~5% in German-speaking individuals. Although the etiology of dyslexia largely remains to be determined, comprehensive evidence supports deficient phonological processing as a major contributing factor. An important prerequisite for phonological processing is auditory discrimination and, thus, essential for acquiring reading and spelling skills.The event-related potential Mismatch Response (MMR) is an indicator for auditory discrimination capabilities with dyslexics showing an altered late component of MMR in response to auditory input.
In this study, we comprehensively analyzed associations of dyslexia-specific late MMRs with genetic variants previously reported to be associated with dyslexia-related phenotypes in multiple studies comprising 25 independent single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with 10 genes.
We demonstrated validity of these SNPs for dyslexia in our sample by showing that additional inclusion of polygenic risk score improved prediction of impaired writing compared with a model that used MMR alone....In total four independent SNPs within DYX1C1 and ATP2C2 genes were found to be associated with MMR stronger than expected from multiple testing.'
(Mueller B, et al, ATP2C2 and DYX1C1 are Putative Modulators of Dyslexia-Related MMR, Brain and Behavior, Sept 2017)
In the future, the reading of amino acid sheet music may be incorporated into testing for dyslexia-related MMR and other reading-writing phenomena, because as Hannas states on p. 271,
'There is one more problem with nonphonetic character coding methods that needs to be mentioned. Educators speak too faciley of of the distinction between character "recognition skills" and the skills needed to produce them by hand, as if the two were completely independent. In fact, there is much experimental and anecdotal evidence to support a connection between the two types of skills. As one's ability physically to write Chinese characters, stroke by stroke, improves, so it seems does one's ability to recognize them and distinguish one from the other. Conversely, as writing skills deteriorate from lack of practice, so does recognition. Primitive motor skills seem to play a part in reinforcing memory here as in other areas.'
Apart from dyslexia and if taught in elementary school, a Japanese alphabet would be an example of a Hannasian political dimension, not simply for its efficiency in transmitting language.
