Task effects in the mid-fusiform gyrus: A comparison of orthographic, phonological, and semantic processing of Chinese characters

Brain and Language

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 113-120

  Guo, Yi ^a   Burgund, E Darcy ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; FMRI; Fusiform; Orthography; Phonology; Reading; Semantics; Task

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; READING; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 77958153536     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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