Reading without the left ventral occipito-temporal cortex

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3621-3635

  Seghier, Mohamed L ^a   Neufeld, Nicholas H ^a,b   Zeidman, Peter ^a   Leff, Alex P ^a   Mechelli, Andrea ^c   Nagendran, Arjuna ^a   Riddoch, Jane M ^d   Humphreys, Glyn W ^d,e   Price, Cathy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alexia; Degeneracy; Effective connectivity; Functional MRI; Recovery; Word reading pathways

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSAL MODELING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMIC CAUSAL MODELING; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LEFT VENTRAL OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTEX; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PLANUM TEMPORALE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VENTRAL OCCIPITAL CORTEX; VENTRAL PREMOTOR CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868557098     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.030     Document Type: Article

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