Neural Correlates of Orthographic Access in Mandarin Chinese Writing: An fMRI Study of the Word-Frequency Effect

Writing is an essential tool for human communication and involves multiple linguistic, cognitive, and motor processes. Chinese, a logographic writing system, differs remarkably from the writing systems of alphabetic languages. The neural substrates of Chinese writing are largely unknown. Using funct...

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Main Authors: Yang Yang, Jun Zhang, Ze-Long Meng, Li Qin, Yu-Fei Liu, Hong-Yan Bi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00288/full