A dynamic causal modeling analysis of the effective connectivities underlying top-down letter processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1177-1186

  Liu, Jiangang ^a   Li, Jun ^b   Rieth, Cory A ^d   Huber, David E ^d   Tian, Jie ^b,c   Lee, Kang ^d,e  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamic causal modeling; FMRI; Letter processing; Top down processing; Word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LETTER; MALE; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; TOP DOWN LETTER PROCESSING; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954416869     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.01.011     Document Type: Article

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