Dissociating visual form from lexical frequency using Japanese

Brain and Language

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 184-193

  Twomey, Tae ^a   Kawabata Duncan, Keith J ^a,b   Hogan, John S ^a   Morita, Kenji ^b   Umeda, Kazumasa ^b   Sakai, Katsuyuki ^b   Devlin, Joseph T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

FMRI; Hiragana; Kanji; Logograph; Morphograph; Reading; Ventral occipito temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIRAGANA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; KANJI; LEXICAL FREQUENCY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MORPHOGRAPHY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTEX; READING; SYLLABOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876461634     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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