Predicting Reading Performance from Neuroimaging Profiles: The Cerebral Basis of Phonological Effects in Printed Word Identification

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 299-318

  Pugh, Kenneth R ^a   Shankweiler, Donald P ^b   Katz, Leonard ^b   Shaywitz, Bennett A ^b   Shaywitz, Sally E ^b   Fletcher, Jack M ^b   Skudlarski, Pawel ^b   Fulbright, Robert K ^b   Constable, R Todd ^b   Bronen, Richard A ^b   Lacadie, Cheryl ^b   Gore, John C ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b School of Medicine ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 0031113054     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.23.2.299     Document Type: Article

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