Title :
Different hemodynamic responses in Chinese, Romanised Chinese and English reading tasks
Author :
Tan, Choong Long ; Rajapakse, Jagath ; Wee Tin Hong ; Wei Ling Lee ; Yih-Yian Sitoh
Author_Institution :
BioInformatics Res. Centre, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
Abstract :
We compared the blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) responses in reading tasks of three languages, Chinese, English and Pinyin, a form of Romanised Chinese in FMRI. We found distinct differences between the activation patterns of all three languages. Hemodynamic response functions were also extracted and analyzed and found to show more bilateral activations in the Chinese languages. The strength of the BOLD responses suggest that Romanised Chinese has an activation pattern not too different from those of the English and Chinese languages.
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; haemodynamics; medical image processing; Chinese; English; Pinyin; Romanised Chinese; activation patterns; blood oxygenation level dependent responses; functional magnetic resonance imaging; hemodynamic responses; reading tasks; Bioinformatics; Blood; Hemodynamics; ISO standards; Natural languages; Neuroscience; Standards organizations; Testing; Tin; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2004 IEEE International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8665-5
DOI :
10.1109/BIOCAS.2004.1454096
