Processing of visually presented sentences in Mandarin and English studied with fMRI

Neuron

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 127-137

  Chee, Michael W L ^a   Caplan, David ^b   Soon, Chun Siong ^c   Sriram, N ^c   Tan, Edsel W L ^a   Thiel, Thorsten ^d   Weekes, Brendan ^e  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 0033136681     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80759-X     Document Type: Article

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