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The Visual Word Form Area: Evidence from an fMRI study of implicit processing of Chinese characters
- C LIU, W ZHANG, Y TANG, X MAI, H CHEN, T TARDIF, Y LUO,
- Original article citation: NeuroImage doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.10.014
- Categories: Neuroscience
- Recommended by: Jie Huang on 02/18/2008 09:21PM GMT
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Visual ventral stream is known to be associated with object recognition and form representation, some specific types of obejcts have their own corresponding brain regions, such as Fusiform Face Area (FFA). In this study, they identified Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) in the left middle fusiform gyrus for written Chinese characters, which area is in line with previously reported VWFA for alphabetic scripts. This study, further, affords applicability of results drawn from alphabetic language to logographic Chinese.
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