fMRI evidence for the automatic phonological activation of briefly presented words

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 156-164

  Peng, Dan Ling ^a   Ding, Guo Sheng ^a   Perry, Conrad ^b   Xu, Duo ^a   Jin, Zhen ^c   Luo, Qian ^a   Zhang, Lei ^c   Deng, Yuan ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c 306 HOSPITAL OF PLA   (China)

Author keywords

Automatic activation; Chinese characters; Cognition; Neural basis of behavior; Regularity; Unattended condition; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHINESE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 2942560465     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.02.006     Document Type: Article

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