Reading in Devanagari: Insights from functional neuroimaging

Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 44-50

  Singh, Nandini Chatterjee ^a   Rao, Chaitra ^a  

^a NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Alphasyllabary; Devanagari; functional magnetic resonance imaging; reading

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; CONSONANT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DEVANAGARI; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; READING; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899650774     PISSN: 09713026     EISSN: 19983808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-3026.130691     Document Type: Article

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