Distinct patterns of brain function in children with isolated spelling impairment: New insights

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1353-1361

  Gebauer, Daniela ^a,b   Enzinger, Christian ^a   Kronbichler, Martin ^c   Schurz, Matthias ^c   Reishofer, Gernot ^a   Koschutnig, Karl ^a,b   Kargl, Reinhard ^d   Purgstaller, Christian ^d   Fazekas, Franz ^a   Fink, Andreas ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^d Institute for Reading and Spelling in Graz   (Austria)

Author keywords

DTI; Dyslexia; FMRI; Isolated spelling impairment; Right hemisphere

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL OPERCULUM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; ISOLATED SPELLING IMPAIRMENT; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; OCCIPITOTEMPORAL REGION; PARACINGULATE CORTEX; PARIETAL OPERCULUM; PHONEME; PRECUNEUS; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPELLING; SUBCALLOSAL CORTEX; SUPERIOR CORONAR RADIATA; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DYSLEXIA, ACQUIRED; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84861224969     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.02.020     Document Type: Article

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