Chinese and Korean characters engage the same visual word form area in proficient early Chinese-Korean bilinguals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Bai, Jian'e ^a,b,c   Shi, Jinfu ^a,d   Jiang, Yi ^a,c   He, Sheng ^c   Weng, Xuchu ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERLOBAR SULCUS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITO-TEMPORAL SULCUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL GYRUS; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA; WRITING; ASIAN; BRAIN MAPPING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960751073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022765     Document Type: Article

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