An fMRI study of Chinese character reading and picture naming by native Korean speakers

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 392, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 90-95

  Yoon, Hyo Woon ^a   Chung, Jun Young ^a   Kim, Kyung Hwan ^b   Song, Myung Sung ^a   Park, Hyun Wook ^a  

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

^b Yonsei University Wonju   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chinese characters in Korean; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Inferior parietal area; Lateralisation; Middle frontal cortex; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; THALAMUS;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; KOREA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 28744432814     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.09.027     Document Type: Article

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