Attentional shifting and the role of the dorsal pathway in visual word recognition

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2926-2936

  Pammer, Kristen ^a   Hansen, Peter ^c   Holliday, Ian ^d   Cornelissen, Piers ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dorsal visual stream; Lexical decision; Magnetoencephalography; Magnocellular; Reading; Synthetic aperture magnetometry (SAM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; READING; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM; WORD RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OXYGEN; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33749436429     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.06.028     Document Type: Article

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