Item-specific and generalization effects on brain activation when learning Chinese characters

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1864-1876

  Deng, Yuan ^a,b   Booth, James R ^c   Chou, Tai Li ^c,d   Ding, Guo Sheng ^a   Peng, Dan Ling ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chinese; fMRI; Lexical; Radical; Training; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHINA; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSLATING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 44349161637     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.09.010     Document Type: Article

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