Reading of Japanese Kanji (morphograms) and Kana (syllabograms): A magnetoencephalographic study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 83-98

  Koyama, Sachiko ^a   Kakigi, Ryusuke ^a   Hoshiyama, Minoru ^a   Kitamura, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brodmann area 37; Human; Japanese; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Temporal lobe; TEO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0031905474     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00097-3     Document Type: Article

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