The left ventral occipito-temporal response to words depends on language lateralization but not on visual familiarity

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1153-1163

  Cai, Qing ^a   Paulignan, Yves ^a   Brysbaert, Marc ^b   Ibarrola, Danielle ^a   Nazir, Tatjana A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cerebral lateralization; Perceptual expertise in reading; Visual familiarity; Visual word reading; VOT (ventral occipito temporal) activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VISION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951125485     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp175     Document Type: Article

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