Hemispheric involvement in reading: The effects of language experience

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 427-442

  Ibrahim, Raphiq ^a   Israeli, Naftally ^a   Eviatar, Zohar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL TASK; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77952885647     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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