Writing affects the brain network of reading in Chinese : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study
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 characters in a character-writing condition and 30 characters in a pinyin-writing condition. After learning, functional ma...
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| author | Cao, Fan Vu, Marianne Ho, Derek Lung Chan Guan, Qun Xu, Yi Lawrence, Jason M. Harris, Lindsay N. Perfetti, Charles A. |
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| description | 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 characters in a character-writing condition and 30 characters in a pinyin-writing condition. After learning, functional magnetic resonance imaging collected during passive viewing showed different networks for reading Chinese characters and English words, suggesting accommodation to the demands of the new writing system through short-term learning. Beyond these expected differences, we found specific effects of character writing in greater activation (relative to pinyin writing) in bilateral superior parietal lobules and bilateral lingual gyri in both a lexical decision and an implicit writing task. These findings suggest that character writing establishes a higher quality representation of the visual–spatial structure of the character and its orthography. We found a greater involvement of bilateral sensori-motor cortex (SMC) for character-writing trained characters than pinyin-writing trained characters in the lexical decision task, suggesting that learning by doing invokes greater interaction with sensori-motor information during character recognition. Furthermore, we found a correlation of recognition accuracy with activation in right superior parietal lobule, right lingual gyrus, and left SMC, suggesting that these areas support the facilitative effect character writing has on reading. Finally, consistent with previous behavioral studies, we found character-writing training facilitates connections with semantics by producing greater activation in bilateral middle temporal gyri, whereas pinyin-writing training facilitates connections with phonology by producing greater activation in right inferior frontal gyrus. Hum Brain Mapp 34:1670–1684, 2013. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1048342020-03-07T12:10:42Z Writing affects the brain network of reading in Chinese : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study Cao, Fan Vu, Marianne Ho, Derek Lung Chan Guan, Qun Xu, Yi Lawrence, Jason M. Harris, Lindsay N. Perfetti, Charles A. School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Language 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 characters in a character-writing condition and 30 characters in a pinyin-writing condition. After learning, functional magnetic resonance imaging collected during passive viewing showed different networks for reading Chinese characters and English words, suggesting accommodation to the demands of the new writing system through short-term learning. Beyond these expected differences, we found specific effects of character writing in greater activation (relative to pinyin writing) in bilateral superior parietal lobules and bilateral lingual gyri in both a lexical decision and an implicit writing task. These findings suggest that character writing establishes a higher quality representation of the visual–spatial structure of the character and its orthography. We found a greater involvement of bilateral sensori-motor cortex (SMC) for character-writing trained characters than pinyin-writing trained characters in the lexical decision task, suggesting that learning by doing invokes greater interaction with sensori-motor information during character recognition. Furthermore, we found a correlation of recognition accuracy with activation in right superior parietal lobule, right lingual gyrus, and left SMC, suggesting that these areas support the facilitative effect character writing has on reading. Finally, consistent with previous behavioral studies, we found character-writing training facilitates connections with semantics by producing greater activation in bilateral middle temporal gyri, whereas pinyin-writing training facilitates connections with phonology by producing greater activation in right inferior frontal gyrus. Hum Brain Mapp 34:1670–1684, 2013. 2013-10-04T06:15:07Z 2019-12-06T21:40:49Z 2013-10-04T06:15:07Z 2019-12-06T21:40:49Z 2013 2013 Journal Article Cao, F., Vu, M., Ho, D. L. C., Lawrence, J. M., Harris, L. N., Guan, Q., Xu, Y., & Perfetti, C. A. (2013). Writing affects the brain network of reading in Chinese: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Human Brain Mapping, 34(7), 1670–1684. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104834 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16269 10.1002/hbm.22017 en Human brain mapping |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Humanities::Language Cao, Fan Vu, Marianne Ho, Derek Lung Chan Guan, Qun Xu, Yi Lawrence, Jason M. Harris, Lindsay N. Perfetti, Charles A. Writing affects the brain network of reading in Chinese : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study |
| title | Writing affects the brain network of reading in Chinese : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study |
| title_full | Writing affects the brain network of reading in Chinese : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study |
| title_fullStr | Writing affects the brain network of reading in Chinese : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Writing affects the brain network of reading in Chinese : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study |
| title_short | Writing affects the brain network of reading in Chinese : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study |
| title_sort | writing affects the brain network of reading in chinese a functional magnetic resonance imaging study |
| topic | DRNTU::Humanities::Language |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104834 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16269 |
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