Dynamics of letter string perception in the human occipitotemporal cortex

Brain

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2119-2131

  Tarkiainen, Antti ^c   Helenius, P ^d   Hansen, P C ^a   Cornelissen, P L ^b   Salmelin, R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Letter string; Magnetoencephalography; Stimulus degradation; Visual cortex; Word reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032744192     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.11.2119     Document Type: Article

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