The inversion effect in visual word form processing

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 217-230

  Kao, Chien Hui ^a   Chen, Der Yow ^a   Chen, Chien Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Hanzi; Object perception; Spatial configuration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; READING; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74249106979     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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