Functional specificity of the visual word form area: General activation for words and symbols but specific network activation for words

Brain and Language

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 180-189

  Reinke, Karen ^a   Fernandes, Myra ^b   Schwindt, Graeme ^c   O'Craven, Kathleen ^d   Grady, Cheryl L ^c,e  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

fMRI; Language; Network; Neural context; Partial least squares; Visual word form area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GEOMETRY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SYMBOLISM; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE NET; READING; SYMBOLISM; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38649136920     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.04.006     Document Type: Article

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