Brain activation of reading Korean words and recognizing pictures by Korean native speakers: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 757-768

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

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

^b PaiChai University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

fMRI; Korean words; Phonemes; Right medial frontal area; Visual word form

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ETHNIC GROUP; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KOREA; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONEME; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; KOREA; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 20044384410     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207450590524502     Document Type: Article

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