Priming for letters and pseudoletters in mid-fusiform cortex: Examining letter selectivity and case invariance

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 591-601

  Burgund, E Darcy ^a   Guo, Yi ^a   Aurbach, Elyse L ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Fusiform; Hemisphere; Letters; Priming; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61449234022     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1661-9     Document Type: Article

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