Distinct role of spatial frequency in dissociative reading of ideograms and phonograms: An fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 979-988

  Horie, Shizuka ^a   Yamasaki, Takao ^a   Okamoto, Tsuyoshi ^b   Kan, Shigeyuki ^c   Ogata, Katsuya ^a   Miyauchi, Satoru ^c   Tobimatsu, Shozo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional MRI (fMRI); High and low spatial frequencies; Japanese kana (phonogram); Japanese kanji (ideogram); Parallel visual pathways; Reading processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDEOGRAM; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONOGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866170427     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.03.046     Document Type: Article

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