Differences between good and poor child writers on fMRI contrasts for writing newly taught and highly practiced letter forms

Reading and Writing

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 493-516

  Richards, Todd L ^a   Berninger, Virginia W ^b   Stock, Pat ^b   Altemeier, Leah ^b   Trivedi, Pamala ^b   Maravilla, Kenneth R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain and writing development; fMRI writing tasks; Handwriting

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954631203     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-009-9217-3     Document Type: Article

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