The "visual word form area" is involved in successful memory encoding of both words and faces

NeuroImage

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 371-378

  Mei, Leilei ^a,b   Xue, Gui ^c   Chen, Chuansheng ^b   Xue, Feng ^a   Zhang, Mingxia ^a   Dong, Qi ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Face; FMRI; Subsequent memory; Visual word; VWFA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHINESE; EPISODIC MEMORY; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953286133     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.03.067     Document Type: Article

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