Language regions of brain are operative in color perception

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

Volumn 106, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 8140-8145

  Siok, Wai Ting ^a,b   Kay, Paul ^c,d   Wang, William S Y ^e   Chan, Alice H D ^a,b   Chen, Lin ^f   Luke, Kang Kwong ^a,b   Tan, Li Hai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Lateralization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66249149029     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903627106     Document Type: Article

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