Modality- and Task-specific Brain Regions Involved in Chinese Lexical Processing

• Published in: Journal of cognitive neuroscience Vol. 21; no. 8; pp. 1473 - 1487
• Main Authors: Liu, Li, Deng, Xiaoxiang, Peng, Danling, Cao, Fan, Ding, Guosheng, Jin, Zhen, Zeng, Yawei, Li, Ke, Zhu, Lei, Fan, Ning, Deng, Yuan, Bolger, Donald J., Booth, James R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA MIT Press 01.08.2009; MIT Press Journals, The
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation - methods; Adult; Analysis of Variance; Asian People - psychology; Brain; Brain - blood supply; Brain - physiology; Brain Mapping; Chinese; Chinese languages; Female; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Humans; Ideographs; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods; Judgment; Judgment - physiology; Judgment - radiation effects; Language; Language Processing; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Male; Mental Processes - physiology; Neurosciences; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Oxygen - blood; Phonetics; Photic Stimulation - methods; Reaction Time - physiology; Rhyme; Semantics; Spoken Written Language Relationship; Time Factors; Word Meaning; Young Adult

fMRI was used to examine lexical processing in native adult Chinese speakers. A 2 task (semantics and phonology) × 2 modality (visual and auditory) within-subject design was adopted. The semantic task involved a meaning association judgment and the phonological task involved a rhyming judgment to tw...