Neuroimaging reveals automatic speech coding during perception of written word meaning

NeuroImage

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 859-870

  Xu, Benjamin ^a,b   Grafman, Jordan ^b   Gaillard, William Davis ^a,c   Spanaki, Marianna ^a   Ishii, Kenji ^d   Balsamo, Lyn ^a,c   Makale, Milan ^b,c   Theodore, William H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PHENOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING;

EID: 0036427338     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(02)91215-2     Document Type: Article

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