Dissociation of normal feature analysis and deficient processing of letter-strings in dyslexic adults

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 476-483

  Helenius, P ^a   Tarkiainen, A ^a   Cornelissen, P ^b   Hansen, P C ^c   Salmelin, R ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NOISE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032809561     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/9.5.476     Document Type: Article

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