The neural code for written words: A proposal

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 335-341

  Dehaene, Stanislas ^a   Cohen, Laurent ^a   Sigman, Mariano ^a   Vinckier, Fabien ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS; VISUALIZATION;

NEURAL CODE; NEURONAL MODEL; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL WORD RECOGNITION;

NEUROLOGY;

FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; PREDICTION; RETINA IMAGE; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 21344452146     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2005.05.004     Document Type: Article

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