Brain activation during phonological and semantic processing of Chinese characters in deaf signers

Brain activation during phonological and semantic processing of Chinese characters in deaf signers

Previous studies found altered brain function in deaf individuals reading alphabetic orthographies. However, it is not known whether similar alterations of brain function are characteristic of non-alphabetic writing systems and whether alterations are specific to certain kinds of lexical tasks. Here...

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Main Authors: Yanyan eLi, Danling ePeng, Li eLiu, James R Booth, Guosheng eDing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
fMRI
reading
meaning
rhyming
congenital deaf
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00211/full

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