Functional magnetic resonance imaging localization of tactile reading phonograms in Japanese subjects

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 87-90

  Takeda, Katsuhiko ^a   Kaminaga, Tatsuro ^b   Furui, Shigeru ^b   Shimizu, Teruo ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Left intraparietal sulcus; Phonograms (kana); Postcentral gyrus; Precentral gyrus; Tactile reading of letters; Tactile recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 0033534357     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00922-7     Document Type: Article

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