Evidence for magnocellular involvement in the identification of flanked letters

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1881-1890

  Omtzigt, David ^a   Hendriks, Angélique W ^b   Kolk, Herman H J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crowding; Dyslexia; Isoluminance; Magno system; Reading; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LINGUISTICS; LUMINANCE; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOMETRY; REACTION TIME; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036385656     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00069-6     Document Type: Article

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