Brain activity of regular and dyslexic readers while reading Hebrew as compared to English sentences

Reading and Writing

Volumn 17, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 707-737

  Breznitz, Zvia ^a   Oren, Revital ^a   Shaul, Shelley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; ERP; LORETA; Second language

Indexed keywords

EID: 12744259713     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-004-2654-0     Document Type: Article

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