The role of the ventral and dorsal pathways in reading Chinese characters and English words

Brain and Language

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 80-88

  Sun, Yafeng ^a   Yang, Yanhui ^b   Desroches, Amy S ^c   Liu, Li ^a   Peng, Danling ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese character reading; Dorsal and ventral pathways; FMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE CHARACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEUS; ENGLISH WORD; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUAL GYRUS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PHONATION; READING; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052657987     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.03.012     Document Type: Article

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