Interindividual uniformity and variety of the “Writing center”: A functional MRI study

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 1837 - 1849
• Main Authors: Sugihara, Genichi, Kaminaga, Tatsuro, Sugishita, Morihiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.10.2006; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Brain; Brain Mapping; Cerebral Cortex - physiology; Echo-Planar Imaging; Exner's area; Female; Fingers - physiology; Functional Laterality - physiology; Handwriting; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Individuality; Intersubject variety; Language; Left hand agraphia; Left intraparietal sulcus; Letters; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Sex Characteristics; Studies; Writing; Writing; Left hand agraphia; Exner's area; Intersubject variety; Left intraparietal sulcus

Our aim is to investigate the neural substrates for writing using fMRI (twenty right-handed subjects). We assumed that common areas involved in both writing with right and left hands are crucial to the central process of writing. We employed Japanese phonograms ( Kana), in which phoneme–grapheme con...