Early involvement of dorsal and ventral pathways in visual word recognition: An ERP study

Brain Research

Volumn 1272, Issue , 2009, Pages 32-44

  Rosazza, Cristina ^a   Cai, Qing ^a   Minati, Ludovico ^b   Paulignan, Yves ^a   Nazir, Tatjana A ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dorsal ventral pathways; Event related potential (ERP); Reading; Unfamiliar format

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TOPOGRAPHY; VENTRAL ROOT; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349123678     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.03.033     Document Type: Article

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