Expertise with characters in alphabetic and nonalphabetic writing systems engage overlapping occipito-temporal areas

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 111-127

  Wong, Alan C N ^a   Jobard, Gael ^b   James, Karin H ^c   James, Thomas W ^c   Gauthier, Isabel ^d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Expertise; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Letters; Object recognition; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCABULARY; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649559743     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290802340972     Document Type: Article

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