The "special effect" of case mixing on word identification: Neuropsychological and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies dissociating case mixing from contrast reduction

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1666-1675

  Braet, Wouter ^a   Humphreys, Glyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; READING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33749437594     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.10.1666     Document Type: Article

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