Direct Intracranial, fMRI, and Lesion Evidence for the Causal Role of Left Inferotemporal Cortex in Reading

Neuron

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 191-204

  Gaillard, Raphaël ^a,b   Naccache, Lionel ^a,b,c   Pinel, Philippe ^a   Clémenceau, Stéphane ^b   Volle, Emmanuelle ^b   Hasboun, Dominique ^b,c   Dupont, Sophie ^b,c   Baulac, Michel ^b,c   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a   Adam, Claude ^b   Cohen, Laurent ^a,b,c  

^a DIF   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS; DYSLEXIA; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FACE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECORDING; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM; WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DYSLEXIA, ACQUIRED; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING;

EID: 33646039141     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.03.031     Document Type: Article

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