Effects of age of acquisition on brain activation during Chinese character recognition

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2086-2090

  Weekes, Brendan Stuart ^a   Chan, Alice H D ^b   Tan, Li Hai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Arbitrary mapping hypothesis; Chinese; Written AoA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHINA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL BONE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 44349147762     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.01.020     Document Type: Article

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