Functional MRI evidence for modulation of cerebral activity by grapheme-to-phoneme conversion in French, and by the variable of gender

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 507-520

  Perrone Bertolotti, M ^a   Pichat, C ^a   Le Bas, J F ^c   Baciu, A ^b   Baciu, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Complex; FMRI; Gender; Grapheme to phoneme conversion; Phonology; Simple

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAPHEME; HUMAN; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUAL GYRUS; NEUROMODULATION; PHONEME; PHONETICS; POSTERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL GYRUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79955708675     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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