Learning to see words

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue , 2012, Pages 31-53

  Wandell, Brian A ^a   Rauschecker, Andreas M ^a   Yeatman, Jason D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Dyslexia; FMRI; Reading; Visual field maps; Visual word form area

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; REVIEW; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; READING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 82955169654     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: 15452085     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100434     Document Type: Review

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