A dual-route perspective on poor reading in a regular orthography: An fMRI study

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1284-1298

  Wimmer, Heinz ^a   Schurz, Matthias ^a   Sturm, Denise ^a   Richlan, Fabio ^a   Klackl, Johannes ^a   Kronbichler, Martin ^a,b   Ladurner, Gunther ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Developmental dyslexia; Dual route; FMRI; Phonological lexical decision; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PHONETICS; READING; SPELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957785760     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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