Breaking the symmetry: Mirror discrimination for single letters but not for pictures in the Visual Word Form Area

NeuroImage

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 742-749

  Pegado, Felipe ^a,b,c   Nakamura, Kimihiro ^a,b,c,d   Cohen, Laurent ^e,f,g   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,b,c,d  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b SERVICE HOSPITALIER FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^e ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^f INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

^g SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

FMRI; Letters; Mirror images; Priming; Reading; VWFA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA; VOLUNTEER; WRITING;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551595777     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.11.043     Document Type: Article

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