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| L H TanSummaryAffiliation: University of Hong Kong Country: China Publications
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A structural-functional basis for dyslexia in the cortex of Chinese readersWai Ting Siok
Department of Linguistics and State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:5561-6. 2008..The results suggest that the structural and functional basis for dyslexia varies between alphabetic and nonalphabetic languages...- Activity levels in the left hemisphere caudate-fusiform circuit predict how well a second language will be learnedLi Hai Tan
State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:2540-4. 2011..Our findings suggest that the activity level of left caudate and fusiform regions serves as an important neurobiological marker for predicting accomplishment in reading skills in a new language... - Brain activation in the processing of Chinese characters and words: a functional MRI studyL H Tan
Cognitive Science Program, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hum Brain Mapp 10:16-27. 2000..The present results constitute a challenge to the deeply ingrained belief that activations in reading single characters are right lateralized, whereas activations in reading two-character words are left lateralized... - Neural systems of second language reading are shaped by native languageLi Hai Tan
Joint Laboratories for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hum Brain Mapp 18:158-66. 2003..Our brain imaging findings lend strongest support to the idea that language experience tunes the cortex... - The neural system underlying Chinese logograph readingL H Tan
Laboratory for Language Neuroscience and Cognition, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Neuroimage 13:836-46. 2001..Our study has implicated brain regions common to both logographic and alphabetic languages as well as brain regions specialized in processing logographs... - An fMRI study with written ChineseL H Tan
Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Neuroreport 12:83-8. 2001..These findings were discussed in comparison to neuroimaging findings from alphabetic languages, as well as in relation to models of reading... - Neuroanatomical correlates of phonological processing of Chinese characters and alphabetic words: a meta-analysisLi Hai Tan
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Hum Brain Mapp 25:83-91. 2005..Language form, cognitive process, and learning strategy drive the development of functional neuroanatomy... - Functional anatomy of syntactic and semantic processing in language comprehensionKang-Kwong Luke
Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hum Brain Mapp 16:133-45. 2002..Equally interesting, we discovered that when our bilingual subjects performed syntactic and semantic acceptability judgments of English phrases, they applied the cerebral systems underlying Chinese reading to the processing of English... - Neural systems for word meaning modulated by semantic ambiguityAlice H D Chan
Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Neuroimage 22:1128-33. 2004..These findings indicate that semantic analysis of written words is a dynamic process involving coordination of widely distributed neural subsystems, which are weighted by semantic ambiguity... - Language affects patterns of brain activation associated with perceptual decisionLi Hai Tan
Department of Linguistics, State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:4004-9. 2008..This finding suggests that the language-processing areas of the brain are directly involved in visual perceptual decision, thus providing neuroimaging support for the Whorf hypothesis... - Neural correlates of nouns and verbs in early bilingualsAlice H D Chan
State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1145:30-40. 2008..Our findings are consistent with the theory that neural circuits for linguistic dimensions are weighted and modulated by the characteristics of a language... - Is left inferior frontal gyrus a general mechanism for selection?John X Zhang
Department of Linguistics, Joint Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Neuroimage 23:596-603. 2004..This result provides supporting evidence for the selection hypothesis... - Biological abnormality of impaired reading is constrained by cultureWai Ting Siok
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Nature 431:71-6. 2004..This finding provides an insight into the fundamental pathophysiology of dyslexia by suggesting that rather than having a universal origin, the biological abnormality of impaired reading is dependent on culture... - Aspectual asymmetries in the mental representation of events: Role of lexical and grammatical aspectFoong Ha Yap
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
Mem Cognit 37:587-95. 2009..The sentence stimuli from this study may be downloaded from mc.psychonomic-journals.org/content/supplemental... - Improvement of spectral density-based activation detection of event-related fMRI dataShing Chung Ngan
Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Magn Reson Imaging 27:879-94. 2009..We then demonstrate the application of the new method on an experimental fMRI data set. Finally, several extensions to this work are suggested... - Reading depends on writing, in ChineseLi Hai Tan
Department of Linguistics, and Vice Chancellor's Office, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:8781-5. 2005..These findings yield a unique insight into how cognitive systems responsible for reading development and reading disability interact, and they challenge the prominent phonological awareness view... - Effects of age of acquisition on brain activation during Chinese character recognitionBrendan Stuart Weekes
Department of Psychology, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
Neuropsychologia 46:2086-90. 2008.... - Distinct brain regions associated with syllable and phonemeWai Ting Siok
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 18:201-7. 2003..This pattern of findings offers compelling evidence for distinct cortical areas relevant to the representation of syllables and phonemes... - Modulation of neural connectivity during tongue movement and readingAlex G He
Department of Psychiatry and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 18:222-32. 2003.... - Neural representations of nouns and verbs in Chinese: an fMRI studyPing Li
Department of Psychology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173, USA
Neuroimage 21:1533-41. 2004.... - Age-of-acquisition effects on oral reading in ChineseYouyi Liu
Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Psychon Bull Rev 15:344-50. 2008..We argue that written AoA has an effect on oral reading in Chinese because the family resemblance between lexical items is limited, as compared with written words in alphabetic scripts... - Predictors of timed picture naming in ChineseBrendan Stuart Weekes
Department of Psychology, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, England
Behav Res Methods 39:335-42. 2007..We discuss the implications of our findings for the study of lexical processing in Chinese. Normative data for 232 Chinese nouns may be downloaded from www.psychonomic.org/archive... - Brain-behavior relations in reading and dyslexia: implications of Chinese resultsCharles A Perfetti
Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Brain Lang 98:344-6. 2006 - Cognitive processing in Chinese literate and illiterate subjects: an fMRI studyGeng Li
The Jockey Club MRI Center, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hum Brain Mapp 27:144-52. 2006..These results indicate that the patterns of neural activation associated with language tasks are strongly influenced by education. Education appears to have enhanced cognitive processing efficiency in language tasks... - Differential activity in left inferior frontal gyrus for pseudowords and real words: an event-related fMRI study on auditory lexical decisionZhuangwei Xiao
Molecular Imaging Research Center, Medical College of Shantou University, Shantou, China
Hum Brain Mapp 25:212-21. 2005.... - Spatial congruence in working memory: an ERP studyBin Zhou
Department of Psychology, Peking University, Beijing, China
Neuroreport 15:2795-9. 2004..The results suggest that the memory-based congruence effect and the classical Simon effect were mediated by similar neural mechanisms and support theories assigning response selection an essential role in spatial congruence effects... - CBF changes during brain activation: fMRI vs. PETChing-Mei Feng
Research Imaging Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
Neuroimage 22:443-6. 2004..95 +/- 2.54%, whereas the value measured by PET was 38.79 +/- 2.63%. Our results have demonstrated that there is no statistically significant difference (P = 0.22) in the measurements of rCBF change between MRI and PET methods... - Comparison of TCA and ICA techniques in fMRI data processingXia Zhao
Research Imaging Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229, USA
J Magn Reson Imaging 19:397-402. 2004..Although ICA has richer features in exploring the spatial and temporal information of the functional images, the TCA method has advantages in its computational efficiency, repeatability, and readiness to average data from group subjects.. - The lexical constituency model: some implications of research on Chinese for general theories of readingCharles A Perfetti
Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Psychol Rev 112:43-59. 2005..More generally, both universal reading processes and writing system constraints exist. Although phonology is universal, its activation process depends on how the writing system structures graphic units...