Chinese and Korean characters engage the same visual word form area in proficient early Chinese-Korean bilinguals.

A number of recent studies consistently show an area, known as the visual word form area (VWFA), in the left fusiform gyrus that is selectively responsive for visual words in alphabetic scripts as well as in logographic scripts, such as Chinese characters. However, given the large difference between...

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Main Authors: Jian'e Bai, Jinfu Shi, Yi Jiang, Sheng He, Xuchu Weng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3144942?pdf=render