'Cost in Transliteration': The neurocognitive processing of Romanized writing

Brain and Language

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 205-212

  Rao, Chaitra ^a   Mathur, Avantika ^a   Singh, Nandini C ^a  

^a NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; FMRI; L2; Phonological; Romanized text; Transliteration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROCOGNITIVE PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHONETICS; PRESUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; READING; SEMANTICS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; WRITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 84873454223     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.12.004     Document Type: Article

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