Visual feature-tolerance in the reading network

Neuron

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 941-953

  Rauschecker, Andreas M ^a,b   Bowen, Reno F ^b   Perry, Lee M ^b   Kevan, Alison M ^b   Dougherty, Robert F ^b   Wandell, Brian A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VENTRAL OCCIPITAL TEMPORAL CIRCUITRY; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 80052416010     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.06.036     Document Type: Article

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