The development of reading impairment: A cognitive neuroscience model

Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 196-205

  McCandliss, Bruce D ^a   Noble, Kimberly G ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Development; Dyslexia; Extrastriate; fMRI; Functional neuroimaging; Fusiform; Intervention; Language; MEG; Perisylvian; PET; Plasticity; Reading

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS;

EID: 0038156510     PISSN: 10804013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrdd.10080     Document Type: Review

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