The neural circuitry involved in the reading of German words and pseudowords: A PET study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 383-398

  Hagoort, Peter ^a   Indefrey, Peter ^b   Brown, Colin ^b   Herzog, Hans ^b   Steinmetz, Helmuth ^b   Seitz, Rüdiger J ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTANOL; OXYGEN 15;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOTOPE LABELING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032862494     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892999563490     Document Type: Article

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