Hierarchical coding of characters in the ventral and dorsal visual streams of Chinese language processing

@article{Chan2009HierarchicalCO,
  title={Hierarchical coding of characters in the ventral and dorsal visual streams of Chinese language processing},
  author={S. Chan and S. Tang and Kwok-wing Tang and Wing-kit Lee and Shing-shun Lo and K. Kwong},
  journal={NeuroImage},
  year={2009},
  volume={48},
  pages={423-435}
}
Functional and spatial hierarchical organization of increasingly language-like word forms has been proposed for alphabetic languages at the occipitotemporal cortex for visual word recognition. In the logographic Chinese language system, similar functional and spatial hierarchical presentations of brain responses to sublexical orthographic structure are beginning to be explored. In this study, we used whole-brain fMRI to show that a hierarchical coding of increasingly language-like character… Expand
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