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 …

Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (ER-fMRI) was used to investigate
how the human brain processes phonology and transforms a word's visual form …

Left fusiform gyrus and left angular gyrus are considered to be respectively involved with
visual form processing and associating visual and auditory (phonological) information in …

Abstract fMRI was used to investigate brain organization for reading in Chinese. Subjects
were shown two-character Chinese words. A control task was used to eliminate the non …

Previous literature in alphabetic languages suggests that the occipital-temporal region (the
ventral pathway) is specialized for automatic parallel word recognition, whereas the parietal …

In order to separate the cognitive processes associated with phonological encoding and the
use of a visual word form lexicon in reading, it is desirable to compare the processing of …

Past neuroimaging studies have focused on identifying specialized functional brain systems
for processing different components of reading, such as orthography, phonology, and …

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 …

Knowing how the brain processes Chinese characters of different frequencies of occurrence
may shed light on the extent to which orthographic variations of different languages can …

The purpose of this study was to examine the neurocognitive network for processing visual
word forms in native Chinese speakers using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) …