Hemispheric dissociation and dyslexia in a computational model of reading

Brain and Language

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 185-193

  Monaghan, Padraic ^a   Shillcock, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational modelling; Dyslexia; Hemispheric processing; Levels of description

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DYSLEXIA; HEMISPHERIC DISSOCIATION; HEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE PROJECTION; PHONETICS; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

BRAIN; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 55749094695     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.12.005     Document Type: Article

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