Magnetic brain activity elicited by visually presented symbols and Japanese characters

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 771-775

  Shirahama, Yasuhiro ^a,c   Ohta, Katsuya ^a   Takashima, Atsuko ^a   Matsushima, Eisuke ^a   Okubo, Yoshiro ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c Sangenjaya Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kana; Kanji; Language; M200; MEG; Semantic processing; Symbol; Visual word form recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; KANA PSEUDOWORD; KANA WORD; KANJI WORD; LANGUAGE; MAGNETISM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SEMANTICS; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 1842608966     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200404090-00006     Document Type: Article

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