Modality- and task-specific brain regions involved in Chinese lexical processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1473-1487

  Liu, Li ^a,b   Deng, Xiaoxiang ^a   Peng, Danling ^a   Cao, Fan ^b   Ding, Guosheng ^a   Jin, Zhen ^c   Zeng, Yawei ^c   Li, Ke ^c   Zhu, Lei ^c   Fan, Ning ^a   Deng, Yuan ^d   Bolger, Donald J ^b   Booth, James R ^b,e  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Hospital 306   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e EVANSTON NORTHWESTERN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHINESE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650427427     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21141     Document Type: Article

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