Differential activity in left inferior frontal gyrus for pseudowords and real words: An event-related fMRI study on auditory lexical decision

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 212-221

  Xiao, Zhuangwei ^a   Zhang, John X ^a,b   Wang, Xiaoyi ^c   Wu, Renhua ^d   Hu, Xiaoping ^e   Weng, Xuchu ^c   Tan, Li Hai ^b  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^d THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^e Emory University   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Chinese; fMRI; Inferior frontal gyrus; Lexical decision; Pseudowords

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 19544362716     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20105     Document Type: Article

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