Inversion effect in the visual processing of Chinese character: An fMRI study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 478, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 107-111

  Zhao, Jizheng ^a   Liu, Jiangang ^b   Li, Jun ^a   Liang, Jimin ^a   Feng, Lu ^c   AI, Lin ^d   Tian, Jie ^a,c  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^d CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Face inversion effect; Fusiform face area; Region of interest; Visual expertise; Visual word form area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953616025     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.04.075     Document Type: Article

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