The visual word form area is organized according to orthography

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2751-2759

  Braet, Wouter ^a   Wagemans, Johan ^a   Op de Beeck, Hans P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

FMRI; LOC; Multi variate pattern analysis; Orthography; Reading; Visual word form area; VWFA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETINA; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855452506     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.032     Document Type: Article

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