Neural mechanisms underlying the processing of Chinese words: An fMRI study

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 139-145

  Dong, Y ^a   Nakamura, K ^a   Okada, T ^b   Hanakawa, T ^a   Fukuyama, H ^a   Mazziotta, J C ^c   Shibasaki, H ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Broca's area; Inferior frontal region; Orthographic judgment; Phonological matching; PITC; Semantic association

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 18944391379     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2005.02.005     Document Type: Article

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