Neural substrate underlying Chinese language processing

Numerous studies have been done in investigating the neural substrate underlying language processing, however, a vast majority of these studies focused on the processing of alphabetic languages. It is still unclear whether languages with different linguistic features are represented by the same or distinct cortical substrate. The present study aims to examine the neural substrate underlying Chinese language processing using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). Chinese is a logographic language with unique phonological and orthographical systems, which are different from the alphabetic languages like English. The semantic and phonological processing of Chinese was examined and compared to that of English.link_to_subscribed_fulltex