Neural Correlates of Letter-String Length and Lexicality during Reading in a Regular Orthography

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1052-1062

  Wydell, T N ^a   Vuorinen, T ^b   Helenius, P ^b   Salmelin, R ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; STIMULATION; STRENGTH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0142057002     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892903770007434     Document Type: Article

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