Cerebral activation in picture naming task including word reading, picture-word matching and semantic categorization

  • Published : 2006.06.02

Abstract

To date, there has been minimal researchregarding the cerebral activation of Korean language. There need the database for Korean language that is quite different from alphabetic system. This study examined the brain activation of picture naming, word reading, picture-word matching, and semantic categorization in Korean language. Moreover, we investigated the cortical activation pattern according to semantic demand for the above tasks.

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