Explaining left lateralization for words in the ventral occipitotemporal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 41, 2011, Pages 14745-14753

  Seghier, Mohamed L ^a   Price, Cathy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VENTRAL OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054011222     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2238-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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