Functional MRI Study on Perceiving Orthographic Structure and Simplified Semantic Pictures.
- Author:
Hyo Woon YOON
1
;
Kyung Hwan KIM
;
Sung Ki LEE
;
Myung Sung SONG
;
Min Jung KWON
;
Jun Young CHUNG
;
Hyun Wook PARK
Author Information
1. fMRI laboratory, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea. hwyoon@fmri.re.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
fMRI(functional magnetic resonance imaging);
Pictograph;
Lateralisation
- MeSH:
Asian Continental Ancestry Group;
Brain;
Humans;
Magnetic Resonance Imaging*;
Semantics*
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
2003;7(2):93-99
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
The different perceiving patterns of each picture, alphabetic words and Chinese characters, were widely investigated psychophysically. The more precise localisation can be done in terms of brain activity using functional image technique such as PET and fMRI recently. Until now, there was no fMRI study to make direct comparison between perception of single Chinese character and simplified pictures (pictograph). We have made direct comparison of these two components using modern magnetic resonance techniques. We cannot confirm the right hemispheric dominance for perception of single Chinese character and pictographs. These two kinds of perceiving pattern can be underlying different mechanism.
