Cerebral lateralization of frontal lobe language processes and lateralization of the posterior visual word processing system

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 672-681

  Cai, Qing ^a   Lavidor, Michal ^b   Brysbaert, Marc ^c   Paulignan, Yves ^a   Nazir, Tatjana A ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 41649098232     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20043     Document Type: Article

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