Activation of the left inferior frontal gyrus in the first 200 ms of reading: Evidence from Magnetoencephalography (MEG)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Cornelissen, Piers L ^a   Kringelbach, Morten L ^b   Ellis, Andrew W ^a   Whitney, Carol ^c   Holliday, Ian E ^d   Hansen, Peter C ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION; BRAIN MAPPING; LANGUAGE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VISION;

BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PERCEPTION; READING; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 65449143548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005359     Document Type: Article

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