Participation of the left posterior inferior temporal cortex in writing and mental recall of kanji orthography. A functional MRI study

Brain

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 954-967

  Nakamura, Kimihiro ^a   Honda, Manabu ^a,b   Okada, Tomohisa ^a,b   Hanakawa, Takashi ^a   Toma, Keiichiro ^a   Fukuyama, Hidenao ^a   Konishi, Junji ^a   Shibasaki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Kanji; Mental recall; Posterior inferior temporal cortex; Writing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECALL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING;

EID: 0034048590     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/123.5.954     Document Type: Article

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