The development of cortical sensitivity to visual word forms

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2387-2399

  Ben Shachar, Michal ^a,b   Dougherty, Robert F ^a   Deutsch, Gayle K ^a   Wandell, Brian A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGE FACTORS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79957823202     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2011.21615     Document Type: Article

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