Functional magnetic resonance imaging of neural activity related to orthographic, phonological, and lexico-semantic judgments of visually presented characters and words

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 44-59

  Fujimaki, Norio ^a,b   Miyauchi, S ^b   Putz B ^c,f   Sasaki, Y ^b,g   Takino, R ^d   Sakai, K ^e   Tamada, T ^c  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d Shiraume Gakuen University   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^g MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Japanese; Katakana; Language; Lateralization; Noun; Pseudocharacter; Verb; Vowel

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033042460     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0193(1999)8:1<44::aid-hbm4>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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