The visual word form area. Spatial and temporal characterization of an initial stage of reading in normal subjects and posterior split-brain patients

Brain

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 291-307

  Cohen, Laurent ^a,b,d   Dehaene, Stanislas ^d   Naccache, Lionel ^d   Lehéricy, Stéphane ^b   Dehaene Lambertz, Ghislaine ^c   Hénaff, Marie Anne ^e   Michel, François ^e  

^a Service de Neurologie 1   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d DIF   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Area V4; Corpus callosum; Event related potentials; Functional MRI; Language; Reading; Split brain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPLIT BRAIN; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0033955795     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/123.2.291     Document Type: Article

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