What's in a name? Brain activity reveals categorization processes differ across languages

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1786-1801

  Liu, Chao ^a,b   Tardif, Twila ^a   Mai, Xiaoqin ^a,b   Gehring, William J ^a   Simms, Nina ^c   Luo, Yue Jia ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Categorization; Crosscultural; Event related potentials; Linguistic relativity hypothesis; Mandarin Chinese; Morphological and orthographical processing; N300; N400; Typicality effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MANDARIN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAILWAY; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONCEPT FORMATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME;

EID: 78649607569     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20974     Document Type: Article

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