Universal brain systems for recognizing word shapes and handwriting gestures during reading

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 50, 2012, Pages 20762-20767

  Nakamura, Kimihiro ^a,b,c,d   Kuo, Wen Jui ^e   Pegado, Felipe ^a,b,c,d   Cohen, Laurent ^f,g,h   Tzeng, Ovid J L ^i,j   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,b,c,d  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^e NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^g ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^h INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

ⁱ ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^j NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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Author keywords

Cross cultural invariance; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Masked priming; Neuronal recycling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GESTURE; GRANULOSA CELL; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; FRANCE; GESTURES; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; SEMANTICS; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870908381     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217749109     Document Type: Article

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