The illiterate brain. Learning to read and write during childhood influences the functional organization of the adult brain

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1053-1063

  Castro Caldas, A ^a,c   Petersson, K M ^b   Reis, A ^a   Stone Elander, S ^b   Ingvar, M ^b  

^a Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz   (Portugal)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Illiteracy; Language processing; Learning; PET; Phonological processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SKILL; WRITING;

EID: 0031803889     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.6.1053     Document Type: Article

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