Neural representation of an alphasyllabary - the story of Devanagari

Current Science

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1033-1038

  Das, T ^a   Kumar, U ^a   Bapi, R S ^b   Padakannaya, P ^c   Singh, N C ^a  

^a NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

Author keywords

Alphabetic; Devanagari; fMRI; Hindi; Syllabic

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749096783     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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