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SUBMITTER: Ting Siok W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2688888 | biostudies-other | 2009 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Ting Siok Wai W Kay Paul P Wang William S Y WS Chan Alice H D AH Chen Lin L Luke Kang-Kwong KK Hai Tan Li L
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090504 20
The effect of language on the categorical perception of color is stronger for stimuli in the right visual field (RVF) than in the left visual field, but the neural correlates of the behavioral RVF advantage are unknown. Here we present brain activation maps revealing how language is differentially engaged in the discrimination of colored stimuli presented in either visual hemifield. In a rapid, event-related functional MRI study, we measured subjects' brain activity while they performed a visual ...[more]