Brain activation in the processing of Chinese characters and words: a functional MRI study

LH Tan, JA Spinks, JH Gao, HL Liu… - Human brain …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to identify the neural correlates of
Chinese character and word reading. The Chinese stimuli were presented visually, one at a …

Frequency effects of Chinese character processing in the brain: an event-related fMRI study

WJ Kuo, TC Yeh, CY Lee, YT Wu, CC Chou, LT Ho… - Neuroimage, 2003 - Elsevier
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 …

Overlap and dissociation of semantic processing of Chinese characters, English words, and pictures: evidence from fMRI

MWL Chee, B Weekes, KM Lee, CS Soon, A Schreiber… - Neuroimage, 2000 - Elsevier
The functional anatomy of Chinese character processing was investigated using fMRI. Right-
handed Mandarin–English bilingual participants made either semantic or perceptual size …

A left-lateralized network for reading Chinese words: a 3 T fMRI study

WJ Kuo, TC Yeh, JR Duann, YT Wu, LT Ho, D Hung… - …, 2001 - journals.lww.com
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 …

Testing for dual brain processing routes in reading: a direct contrast of Chinese character and pinyin reading using fMRI

Y Chen, S Fu, SD Iversen, SM Smith… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2002 - direct.mit.edu
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 …

Developmental differences of neurocognitive networks for phonological and semantic processing in Chinese word reading

F Cao, D Peng, L Liu, Z Jin, N Fan, Y Deng… - Human brain …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Developmental differences in the neurocognitive networks for phonological and semantic
processing in Chinese word reading were examined in 13 adults and 13 children using …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of neural activity related to orthographic, phonological, and lexico‐semantic judgments of visually presented characters and …

N Fujimaki, S Miyauchi, B Pütz, Y Sasaki… - Human brain …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to investigate neural activity during the
judgment of visual stimuli in two groups of experiments using seven and five normal …

Effects of word form on brain processing of written Chinese

S Fu, Y Chen, S Smith, S Iversen, PM Matthews - Neuroimage, 2002 - Elsevier
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 …

Neural pathways involved in the processing of concrete and abstract words

KA Kiehl, PF Liddle, AM Smith, A Mendrek… - Human brain …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study was to delineate the neural pathways involved in processing
concrete and abstract words using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Word and …

Mandarin and English single word processing studied with functional magnetic resonance imaging

MWL Chee, EWL Tan, T Thiel - Journal of neuroscience, 1999 - Soc Neuroscience
The cortical organization of language in bilinguals remains disputed. We studied 24 right-
handed fluent bilinguals: 15 exposed to both Mandarin and English before the age of 6 …