Assimilation and accommodation patterns in ventral occipitotemporal cortex in learning a second writing system

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 810-820

  Nelson, Jessica R ^a   Liu, Ying ^a   Fiez, Julie ^a   Perfetti, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese word identification; Fusiform; Language learning; Reading; Writing systems

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WRITING;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTILINGUALISM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; WRITING;

EID: 61449215206     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20551     Document Type: Article

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