Children with reading disability show brain differences in effective connectivity for visual, but not auditory word comprehension

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Li ^a,b   Vira, Amit ^b   Friedman, Emma ^b   Minas, Jennifer ^b   Bolger, Donald ^c   Bitan, Tali ^d   Booth, James ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ADOLESCENT; BAYES THEOREM; HEARING; LEARNING DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; READING; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; HEARING; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; READING; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 78149438717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013492     Document Type: Article

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