Functional MRI of sentence comprehension in children with dyslexia: Beyond word recognition

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 402-413

  Rimrodt, S L ^a,b   Clements Stephens, A M ^a,b   Pugh, K R ^b,c,d   Courtney, S M ^a,b   Gaur, P ^a   Pekar, J J ^a,b   Cutting, L E ^a,b,c,e  

^a KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Neuroimaging; Reading disabilities; Sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 58449126097     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn092     Document Type: Article

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