Neural processing of words in the human extrastriate visual cortex

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 193-203

  Kuriki, Shinya ^a,b   Takeuchi, Fumiya ^a   Hirata, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extrastriate cortex; Fusiform gyms; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Visual area; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031809209     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(97)00030-X     Document Type: Article

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