The left fusiform area is affected by written frequency of words

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2292-2299

  Proverbio, Alice M ^a   Zani, Alberto ^b   Adorni, Roberta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Developmental dyslexia; ERPs; Language; Pure alexia; Reading; Visual route; VWFA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; READING; SPINDLE CELL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SCALP; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44449126158     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.03.024     Document Type: Article

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