Hemispheric specialization and independence for word recognition: A comparison of three computational models

Brain and Language

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 554-568

  Weems, Scott A ^a   Reggia, James A ^a  

^a AV Williams Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Hemispheric independence; Hemispheric specialization; Lateralization; Lexical decision; Neural networks; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; PERSONALITY TEST; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 2142725968     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2004.02.001     Document Type: Article

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