Cultural constraints on brain development: Evidence from a developmental study of visual word processing in Mandarin Chinese

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1223-1233

  Cao, Fan ^a   Lee, Rebecca ^a   Shu, Hua ^b   Yang, Yanhui ^c   Xu, Guoqing ^b   Li, Kuncheng ^c   Booth, James R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese; Development; Rhyming; Spelling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BROADMAN AREA; CHILD; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MANDARIN; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951113729     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp186     Document Type: Article

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