Word or word-like? Dissociating orthographic typicality from lexicality in the left occipito-temporal cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 992-1002

  Woollams, Anna M ^a   Silani, Giorgia ^b   Okada, Kayoko ^c   Patterson, Karalyn ^d   Price, Cathy J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 78650771786     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21502     Document Type: Article

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