Orthographic transparency modulates the functional asymmetry in the fusiform cortex: An artificial language training study

Brain and Language

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 165-172

  Mei, Leilei ^a,b   Xue, Gui ^b,c   Lu, Zhong Lin ^d   He, Qinghua ^c   Zhang, Mingxia ^a,b   Xue, Feng ^b,c   Chen, Chuansheng ^a   Dong, Qi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Fusiform laterality; Language learning; Orthographic transparency; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHABETIC LANGUAGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LOGOGRAPHIC LANGUAGE; MALE; ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSPARENCY; PHONETICS; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WRITING;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE THERAPY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876460924     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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