The orthographic sensitivity to written Chinese in the occipital-temporal cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 227, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 387-396

  Liu, Haicheng ^a,b,c   Jiang, Yi ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a,b,d   Ma, Lifei ^a   He, Sheng ^d,e   Weng, Xuchu ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c HAINAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese character; Multi voxel pattern analysis (MVPA); Orthography; Visual word form area (VWFA)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CALCARINE SULCUS; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; WRITING;

EID: 84878807473     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3518-0     Document Type: Article

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