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The Effect of Written Scripts' Dissimilarity over Ventral and Dorsal Reading Pathway: Combined fMRI & DTI Study
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Kumar, Uttam; Padakannaya, Prakash – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
We employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and diffuse tensor imaging (DTI) to study neural implications of silent reading of words in mutually comprehensible but visually and orthographically distinct languages for example Hindi and Urdu by independent groups of skilled readers. The fMRI results (conjunction analyses) showed the…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Reading Comprehension, Indo European Languages