Short-term language experience shapes the plasticity of the visual word form area

Brain Research

Volumn 1316, Issue , 2010, Pages 83-91

  Song, Yiying ^a,b   Bu, Yong ^a,b   Hu, Siyuan ^a,b   Luo, Yuejia ^b   Liu, Jia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Short term language experience; Visual association learning; Visual word form area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; READING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75549091711     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.11.086     Document Type: Article

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