Pre-orthographic character string processing and parietal cortex: A role for visual attention in reading?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2195-2204

  Lobier, Muriel ^a   Peyrin, Carole ^a   Le Bas, Jean François ^b   Valdois, Sylviane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^b GRENOBLE INSTITUT DES NEUROSCIENCES   (France)

Author keywords

Character string processing; Reading; SPL; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; READING; SKILL; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863858415     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.05.023     Document Type: Article

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