Human brain activation network for Chinese character processing: An fMRI study

Xiujun Li; Jingjing Yang; Qi Li; Dan Tong; Jinglong Wu

doi:10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558692

Human brain activation network for Chinese character processing: An fMRI study

Xiujun Li, Jingjing Yang, Qi Li, Dan Tong, Jinglong Wu

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Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) or positron emission tomography (PET), much knowledge has been gained in understanding how the brain is activated during controlled experiments of language tasks in educated healthy subjects and in uneducated healthy subjects. While previous studies have compared performance between alphabetic subjects, few data were about Chinese-speaking individuals. In this study, we used fMRI to investigate brain activations in processing characters and figures by visual tasks in 13 Chinese subjects. Significant activation patterns were observed in the occipital regions, the temporal regions, the parietal regions, the frontal regions and cerebellum. We conclude that constellation of neural substrates is bilateral network for Chinese healthy subjects and the formation of this neural network is affected by the impact of education rather than experience.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, IEEE ICMA 2016
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	960-965
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509023943
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558692
Publication status	Published - Sep 1 2016
Event	13th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, IEEE ICMA 2016 - Harbin, Heilongjiang, China Duration: Aug 7 2016 → Aug 10 2016

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Other	13th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, IEEE ICMA 2016
Country/Territory	China
City	Harbin, Heilongjiang
Period	8/7/16 → 8/10/16

Keywords

brain activation
Chinese
fMRI
network
orthographic

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Human brain activation network for Chinese character processing : An fMRI study. / Li, Xiujun; Yang, Jingjing; Li, Qi et al.

2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, IEEE ICMA 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. p. 960-965 7558692.

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Li, X, Yang, J, Li, Q, Tong, D & Wu, J 2016, Human brain activation network for Chinese character processing: An fMRI study. in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, IEEE ICMA 2016., 7558692, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 960-965, 13th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, IEEE ICMA 2016, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, 8/7/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558692

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