Why do children make mirror errors in reading? Neural correlates of mirror invariance in the visual word form area

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1837-1848

  Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,b,c,d   Nakamura, Kimihiro ^a,b,c,d,e   Jobert, Antoinette ^a,b,c   Kuroki, Chihiro ^e   Ogawa, Seiji ^e   Cohen, Laurent ^a,b,c,f  

^a Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*  (France)

^b NeuroSpin   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^e Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research   (Japan)

^f PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CULTURE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70749104901     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.09.024     Document Type: Article

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