Subliminal convergence of Kanji and Kana words: Further evidence for functional parcellation of the posterior temporal cortex in visual word perception

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 954-968

  Nakamura, Kimihiro ^a,b,e   Dehaene, Stanislas ^c   Jobert, Antoinette ^c   Le Bihan, Denis ^c   Kouider, Sid ^c,d  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c DIF   (France)

^d FACULTÉ DE MÉDECINE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 20444419815     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929054021166     Document Type: Article

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