When all hypotheses are right: A multifocal account of dyslexia

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2278-2292

  Pernet, Cyril ^a   Andersson, Jesper ^b   Paulesu, Eraldo ^c   Demonet, Jean Francois ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Dyslexia; Fusiform gyrus; Reading; Superior temporal gyrus; VBM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WRITING;

EID: 67649644759     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20670     Document Type: Article

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