Top-down modulation of ventral occipito-temporal responses during visual word recognition

NeuroImage

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1242-1251

  Twomey, Tae ^a   Kawabata Duncan, Keith J ^a,b   Price, Cathy J ^b   Devlin, Joseph T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feedback; FMRI; Fusiform gyrus; Lexical decision; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952048265     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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