Towards an understanding of the role of the 'magnocellular advantage' in fluent reading

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1494-1506

  Laycock, Robin ^a   Crewther, Sheila G ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Dorsal stream; Magnocellular; Reading disability; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GIANT CELL; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; REVIEW; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; READING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 52049093198     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.06.002     Document Type: Review

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