Interaction between brain regions during semantic processing in Chinese adults

Language and Linguistics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 159-182

  Fan, Li Ying ^a   Lee, Shu Hui ^a   Chou, Tai Li ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Effective connectivity; Orthography; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952890756     PISSN: 1606822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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