Reading in a regular orthography: An fMRI study investigating the role of visual familiarity

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 727-741

  Ischebeck, Anja ^a,f   Indefrey, Peter ^b,c   Usui, Nobuo ^d   Nose, Izura ^e   Hellwig, Frauke ^b,c   Taira, Masato ^d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e BUNKYO GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BOOK; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; JAPAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SELF COMPATIBILITY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 2942564225     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892904970708     Document Type: Article

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