Mandarin and English single word processing studied with functional magnetic resonance imaging

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 3050-3056

  Chee, Michael W L ^a,c   Tan, Edsel W L ^a   Thiel, Thorsten ^b  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c Singapore Gamma Knife Centre   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Brain mapping; English Chinese comparison; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Language; Visual word processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0033560928     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-08-03050.1999     Document Type: Article

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