fMRI data from Korean, Chinese and English subjects in a word rhyming judgment task

Abstract

This article includes the description of data information from a visual word rhyming judgment task in native Korean, native Chinese and native English speakers. You will find fMRI data information including experimental design, MRI protocol, and brain activation results from a conjunction analysis of the three groups of subjects. Other results from the same study were published in “How does language distance between L1 and L2 affect the L2 brain network? An fMRI study of Korean–Chinese–English trilinguals” (Kim et al., 2015 [1]). Keywords: fMRI, Reading, Rhyming, Chinese, Korean, English