The left occipitotemporal cortex does not show preferential activity for words

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2715-2732

  Vogel, Alecia C ^a   Petersen, Steven E ^a,b   Schlaggar, Bradley L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

extrastriate; fMRI; fusiform; orthography; reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DRAWING; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866176235     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr295     Document Type: Article

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