Reading the reading brain: A new meta-analysis of functional imaging data on reading

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 214-238

  Cattinelli, Isabella ^a,b   Borghese, N Alberto ^a   Gallucci, Marcello ^b   Paulesu, Eraldo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c IRCCS ISTITUTO ORTOPEDICO GALEAZZI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clustering; FMRI; Meta analysis; PET; Pseudowords; Reading neural circuits; Words

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FACE VALIDITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; READING; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867225127     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: 18738052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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