TY - GEN
T1 - Cortical activation during reading letter string in normal and reverse directions
T2 - 2005 27th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE-EMBS 2005
AU - Ge, Sheng
AU - Saito, Takashi
AU - Ogasawara, Jun Ichi
AU - Iramina, Keiji
PY - 2005/12/1
Y1 - 2005/12/1
N2 - In order to investigate the difference of cortical activation between reading letter string in normal direction and reverse direction, an fMRI study was conducted. In this study, the cortical activations responsible for Japanese string and Chinese string reading were investigated. The subjects performed normal direction reading task (read strings from left to right), and reverse direction reading task (read strings from right to left). According to the experimental results, the activated brain regions during normal direction reading task and reverse direction reading task were almost the same, besides, we found visuospatial transformation was involved in the reverse direction reading task, while this function was not significant during normal direction reading task.
AB - In order to investigate the difference of cortical activation between reading letter string in normal direction and reverse direction, an fMRI study was conducted. In this study, the cortical activations responsible for Japanese string and Chinese string reading were investigated. The subjects performed normal direction reading task (read strings from left to right), and reverse direction reading task (read strings from right to left). According to the experimental results, the activated brain regions during normal direction reading task and reverse direction reading task were almost the same, besides, we found visuospatial transformation was involved in the reverse direction reading task, while this function was not significant during normal direction reading task.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33846910001
SN - 0780387406
SN - 9780780387409
T3 - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
SP - 1355
EP - 1358
BT - Proceedings of the 2005 27th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE-EMBS 2005
Y2 - 1 September 2005 through 4 September 2005
ER -