The Visual Word Form Area: Evidence from an fMRI study of implicit processing of Chinese characters

NeuroImage

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1350-1361

  Liu, Chao ^a,b   Zhang, Wu Tian ^a   Tang, Yi Yuan ^a,c   Mai, Xiao Qin ^a,b   Chen, Hsuan Chih ^d   Tardif, Twila ^b   Luo, Yue Jia ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese character; fMRI; Implicit processing; Orthographic processing; Visual Word Form Area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 40849113292     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.10.014     Document Type: Article

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