How sound symbolism is processed in the brain: A study on Japanese mimetic words

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Kanero, Junko ^a   Imai, Mutsumi ^b   Okuda, Jiro ^c   Okada, Hiroyuki ^d   Matsuda, Tetsuya ^d  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; SYMBOLISM; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; HEARING; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 84901373482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097905     Document Type: Article

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