The putative visual word form area is functionally connected to the dorsal attention network

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 537-549

  Vogel, Alecia C ^a   Miezin, Fran M ^a,b   Petersen, Steven E ^a,b,c   Schlaggar, Bradley L ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

orthography; reading; resting state; rs fcMRI; specialization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SKILL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857209281     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr100     Document Type: Article

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