Access to lexical meaning in pitch-flattened Chinese sentences: An fMRI study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 550-556

  Xu, Guoqing ^a,b   Zhang, Linjun ^c   Shu, Hua ^a   Wang, Xiaoyi ^d   Li, Ping ^e  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Insula; Lexical meaning access; Lexical tone; Middle and inferior temporal gyri; Pitch flattened sentences; Planum temporale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; INSULA; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PITCH; PLANUM TEMPORALE; SEMANTICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84872229405     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.12.006     Document Type: Article

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