Cognitive processing in Chinese literate and illiterate subjects: An fMRI study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 144-152

  Li, Geng ^a,b   Cheung, Raymond T F ^b   Gao, Jia Hong ^c   Lee, Tatia M C ^b   Tan, Li Hai ^b   Fox, Peter T ^c   Jack Jr , Clifford R ^d   Yang, Edward S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Neural activation; Silent picture naming task; Silent word recognition task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHINESE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHINA; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 32544441579     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20173     Document Type: Article

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