Cerebral asymmetry in children when reading Chinese characters

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 206-214

  Xue, Gui ^a   Dong, Qi ^a   Chen, Kewei ^b   Jin, Zhen ^c   Chen, Chuansheng ^d   Zeng, Yawei ^c   Reiman, Eric M ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BANNER GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c 306 HOSPITAL OF PLA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Chinese language; fMRI; Hemispheric dominance; Voxel wise analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CHINESE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL CORTEX;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; READING;

EID: 21544432739     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.01.022     Document Type: Article

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