Effects of word form on brain processing of written chinese

NeuroImage

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1538-1548

  Fu, Shimin ^a,b   Chen, Yiping ^a   Smith, Stephen ^c   Iversen, Susan ^a   Matthews, P M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese reading; Functional MRI; Language; Lateralization; Reading; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPEECH; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0036432314     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1155     Document Type: Article

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