We examined the hypothesis that learning to write Chinese characters influences the brain's
reading network for characters. Students from a college Chinese class learned 30 …

Both logographic characters and alphabetic pinyins can be used to write words in Chinese.
Here we use fMRI to address the question of whether the written form affects brain …

Research on cross-linguistic comparisons of the neural correlates of reading has
consistently found that the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) is more involved in Chinese than …

Do the neural circuits for reading vary across culture? Reading of visually complex writing
systems such as Chinese has been proposed to rely on areas outside the classical left …

In neuroimaging studies of word reading in natural scripts, the effect of alphabeticality is
often confounded with the effect of practice. We used an artificial script to separately …

How the brain processes writing in Chinese is largely unknown. Using functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) with kinematic recording, this study examined the brain activation …

Recognizing printed words requires the mapping of graphic forms, which vary with writing
systems, to linguistic forms, which vary with languages. Using a newly developed meta …

Chinese offers a unique tool for testing the effects of word form on language processing
during reading. The processes of letter-mediated grapheme-to-phoneme translation and …

Native English speakers with no knowledge of Chinese were trained on 60 Chinese
characters according to one of three mapping conditions: orthography to pronunciation and …

Written Chinese as logographic script differs notably from alphabets such as English in
visual form, orthography, phonology, and semantics. Thus, research on the Chinese …