Language-specific tuning of visual cortex? Functional properties of the Visual Word Form Area

Brain

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1054-1069

  Cohen, Laurent ^a,b   Lehéricy, Stéphane ^a   Chochon, Florence ^a   Lemer, Cathy ^a,b   Rivaud, Sophie ^a   Dehaene, Stanislas ^b  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Alexia; Asymmetry; Brain mapping; Language; Magnetic resonance imaging; Orthography; Reading; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0036237545     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awf094     Document Type: Article

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