Top-down processing of symbolic meanings modulates the visual word form area

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 35, 2012, Pages 12277-12283

  Song, Yiying ^a   Tian, Moqian ^a   Liu, Jia ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOUND; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SYMBOLISM; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865445650     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1874-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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