Children with dyslexia lack multiple specializations along the visual word-form (VWF) system

NeuroImage

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1940-1949

  van der Mark, Sanne ^a   Bucher, Kerstin ^a   Maurer, Urs ^b,c   Schulz, Enrico ^b,d   Brem, Silvia ^b,e   Buckelmüller, Jsabelle ^b   Kronbichler, Martin ^f,g   Loenneker, Thomas ^a,b   Klaver, Peter ^a   Martin, Ernst ^a,b   Brandeis, Daniel ^b,h  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^g Christian Doppler Klinik   (Austria)

^h CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 67651017548     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.05.021     Document Type: Article

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