Cortical network for reading linear words in an alphasyllabary

Reading and Writing

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 697-707

  Das, Tanusree ^a   Bapi, Raju S ^b   Padakannaya, Prakash ^c   Singh, Nandini C ^a  

^a NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

Author keywords

Alphasyllabary; Devanagari; fMRI; Hindi; Word reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958766243     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-010-9241-3     Document Type: Article

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