Reading does not depend on writing, even in Chinese

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1193-1199

  Bi, Yanchao ^a   Han, Zaizhu ^a   Zhang, Yumei ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese; Reading; Writing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); WRITING;

EID: 60549097025     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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