Brain dynamics of Arabic reading: A magnetoencephalographic study

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1861-1864

  Al Hamouri, Firas ^a   Maestú, Fernando ^b   Del Río, David ^b   Fernández, Santiago ^b   Campo, Pablo ^b   Capilla, Almudena ^b   García, Emilio ^b   González Marqués, Javier ^b   Ortiz, Tomas ^b  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arabic; Functional brain imaging; Language lateralization; Magnetic source imaging; Magnetoencephalography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPAIN; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ADULT; ARABS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27544471340     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000185965.41959.87     Document Type: Article

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