Cerebral asymmetry in the fusiform areas predicted the efficiency of learning a new writing system

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 923-931

  Xue, Gui ^a   Chen, Chuansheng ^a   Jin, Zhen ^b   Dong, Qi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b 306 HOSPITAL OF PLA   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; KOREA; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISION; WRITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; WRITING;

EID: 33746022953     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.6.923     Document Type: Article

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