The role of inferior frontal gyrus and inferior parietal lobule in semantic processing of Chinese characters

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 198, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 465-475

  Chou, Tai Li ^a   Chen, Chih Wei ^a   Wu, Mei Yao ^a   Booth, James R ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Association strength; FMRI; Meaning; Semantic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 70349241566     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-1942-y     Document Type: Article

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