Activation of lateral extrastriate areas during orthographic processing of Japanese characters studied with fMRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 208-215

  Uchida, Idai ^a   Kikyo, Hideyuki ^a   Nakajima, Kyoichi ^a   Konishi, Seiki ^a   Sekihara, Kensuke ^b   Miyashita, Yasushi ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LUMINANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 0032777624     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.1999.0400     Document Type: Article

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