Hierarchical coding of characters in the ventral and dorsal visual streams of Chinese language processing

NeuroImage

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 423-435

  Chan, Suk tak ^a   Tang, Sze wing ^a   Tang, Kwok wing ^b   Lee, Wing kit ^a   Lo, Shing shun ^c   Kwong, Kenneth K ^d  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^c UNITED CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KOREA; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; READING; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68749107143     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.06.078     Document Type: Article

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