Robust and task-independent spatial profile of the visual word form activation in fusiform cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Ma, Lifei ^a   Jiang, Yi ^a,b   Bai, Jian'e ^a   Gong, Qiyong ^c   Liu, Haicheng ^a   Chen, Hsuan Chih ^d   He, Sheng ^b   Weng, Xuchu ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHINESE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; READING; SEMANTICS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION; ASIAN; BRAIN MAPPING; LANGUAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054691515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026310     Document Type: Article

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