Similar brain activation patterns for writing logographic and phonetic symbols in Chinese

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1621-1625

  Lin, Chong Yu ^a   Xiao, Zhuang Wei ^b   Shen, Li ^a,c   Zhang, John X ^b,d   Weng, Xu Chu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese character; Functional MRI; Kana; Kanji; Pinyin; Writing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHINA; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; WRITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHINA; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 34748817469     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f0405b     Document Type: Article

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