Neural mechanisms of Korean word reading: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 373, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 206-211

  Yoon, Hyo Woon ^a   Cho, Kyung Duk ^b   Chung, Jun Young ^a   Park, Hyun Wook ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b PaiChai University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chinese characters; fMRI; Korean words; Posterior part of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Visual higher order control area

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CHINESE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; KOREA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPINDLE CELL; VISUAL CORTEX; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; LANGUAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; READING;

EID: 16644395888     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.10.021     Document Type: Article

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