A structural-functional basis for dyslexia in the cortex of Chinese readers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 5561-5566

  Wai, Ting Siok ^a,b   Niu, Zhendong ^c   Jin, Zhen ^d   Perfetti, Charles A ^e   Li, Hai Tan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d 306 HOSPITAL OF PLA   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain function; Chinese language; Culture; Neuroimaging; Reading disorder

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CHINESE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING;

BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHINA; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; READING;

EID: 44449161302     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801750105     Document Type: Article

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