Oral spelling and writing in a logographic language: Insights from a Chinese dysgraphic individual

Brain and Language

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-28

  Han, Zaizhu ^a   Bi, Yanchao ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese; Oral spelling; Writing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY MALFORMATION; CHINESE; COMPREHENSION; DISSOCIATION; DYSGRAPHIA; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHONETICS; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SOUND; SPELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WRITING;

ADULT; AGRAPHIA; CHINA; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE; WRITING;

EID: 67349251234     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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