Neural correlates of top-down letter processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 636-641

  Liu, Jiangang ^a   Li, Jun ^b   Zhang, Hongchuan ^d   Rieth, Cory A ^e   Huber, David E ^e   Li, Wu ^c   Lee, Kang ^e,f   Tian, Jie ^b,c  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

fMRI; Letter processing; Top down processing; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72449212200     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.10.024     Document Type: Article

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