The visual word form area: Expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 293-299

  McCandliss, Bruce D ^a   Cohen, Laurent ^b,c   Dehaene, Stanislas ^c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; LINGUISTICS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

READING ABILITY;

VISION;

HUMAN; PERCEPTION; READING; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING;

EID: 0037675712     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(03)00134-7     Document Type: Article

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