Dissociative neural correlates of semantic processing of nouns and verbs in Chinese - A language with minimal inflectional morphology

NeuroImage

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 912-922

  Yu, Xi ^a   Law, Sam Po ^a   Han, Zaizhu ^b   Zhu, Caozhe ^b   Bi, Yanchao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese nouns and verbs; FMRI; Semantic judgment; Word class effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LATENT PERIOD; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052147891     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.039     Document Type: Article

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