Brain activation for consonants and vowels

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1727-1735

  Carreiras, Manuel ^a,b   Price, Cathy J ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consonants and vowels; fMRI; Lexico semantic processing; Prosodic processing; Transposed letters; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSONANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL MEMORY; VOWEL;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 45849152535     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm202     Document Type: Article

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