Dissociation of writing processes: Functional magnetic resonance imaging during writing of Japanese ideographic characters

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 281-286

  Matsuo, Kayako ^a   Nakai, Toshiharu ^a   Kato, Chikako ^a,b   Moriya, Tetsuo ^a   Isoda, Haruo ^c   Takehara, Yasuo ^c   Sakahara, Harumi ^c  

^a MRSL   (Japan)

^b TOYOHASHI SOZO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

fMRI; Handwriting movement; Japanese ideographic character; Kanji; Transcription; Visual language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FINGERS; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0034105894     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(00)00008-2     Document Type: Article

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