Category-specific occipitotemporal activation during face perception in dyslexic individuals: An MEG study

NeuroImage

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1194-1204

  Tarkiainen, A ^a   Helenius, P ^a   Salmelin, R ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Extrastriate; Magnetoencephalography; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DYSLEXIA; FACE; FACIES; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 0043172252     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00161-7     Document Type: Article

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