"What" and "where" in word reading: Ventral coding of written words revealed by parietal atrophy

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1998-2012

  Vinckier, Fabien ^b   Naccache, Lionel ^a,b,c   Papeix, Caroline ^a   Forget, Joaquim ^b   Hahn Barma, Valerie ^a   Dehaene, Stanislas ^b   Cohen, Laurent ^a,b,c  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODING; ERROR; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; STIMULUS; VISUAL FIELD; WRITING;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PICK DISEASE OF THE BRAIN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845489728     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.12.1998     Document Type: Article

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