Writing affects the brain network of reading in Chinese : a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

• Main Authors: Cao, Fan, Vu, Marianne, Ho, Derek Lung Chan, Guan, Qun, Xu, Yi, Lawrence, Jason M., Harris, Lindsay N., Perfetti, Charles A.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104834; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16269
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We examined the hypothesis that learning to write Chinese characters influences the brain's reading network for characters. Students from a college Chinese class learned 30 characters in a character-writing condition and 30 characters in a pinyin-writing condition. After learning, functional ma...