Word and number reading in the brain: Evidence from a Voxel-based Lesion-symptom Mapping study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 1944-1953

  Piras, Fabrizio ^a,b   Marangolo, Paola ^a,c  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acalculia; Aphasia; Number reading; VLSM; Word reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; READING; STROKE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STROKE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 67349269556     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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