The neural substrates of visual perceptual learning of words: Implications for the visual word form area hypothesis

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1643-1655

  Xue, Gui ^a,b   Poldrack, Russell A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35148863978     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.10.1643     Document Type: Article

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