Neural substrates of phonological selection for Japanese character Kanji based on fMRI investigations

NeuroImage

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1280-1291

  Matsuo, Kayako ^a,b,c   Chen, Shen Hsing Annabel ^a,d   Hue, Chih Wei ^a   Wu, Chiao Yi ^a,d   Bagarinao, Epifanio ^c,e   Tseng, Wen Yih Isaac ^b   Nakai, Toshiharu ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chinese character; fMRI; Homophone judgment; information selection; Japanese kanji; Phonological processing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE; CINGULATE GYRUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77249094479     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.12.099     Document Type: Article

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