Oscillatory activity in the occipitotemporal area related to the visual perception of letters of a first/second language and pseudoletters

NeuroImage

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 789-796

  Ihara, Aya ^a   Kakigi, Ryusuke ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; KOREA; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 31044453967     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.08.036     Document Type: Article

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