General associative learning shapes the plasticity of the visual word form area

NeuroReport

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 333-337

  Song, Yiying ^a,b   Bu, Yong ^a,b   Liu, Jia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; General associative learning; Visual word form area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949456933     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328336ee48     Document Type: Article

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