Functional magnetic resonance imaging during recognition of written words: Chinese characters for concrete objects versus abstract concepts

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 83-86

  Kansaku, K ^a   Shimoyama, I ^a   Nakajima, Y ^a   Higuchi, Y ^a   Nakazaki, S ^a   Kubota, M ^a   Morita, F ^b   Kusaka, T ^c   Katoh, K ^d   Yamaura, A ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Kusaka Clinic   (Japan)

^d GE HealthCare Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chinese character; Dipole tracing; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Visual evoked potential; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHINESE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHINA; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; WRITING;

EID: 0031951228     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(97)00108-9     Document Type: Article

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