Write to read: The brain's universal reading and writing network

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 56-57

  Perfetti, Charles A ^a,b   Tan, Li Hai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HANDWRITTEN WORDS; NEW STUDY; WRITING SYSTEMS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; READING; SHORT SURVEY; VISUAL CORTEX; WRITING;

BRAIN; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; READING; WRITING;

EID: 84872857247     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.12.008     Document Type: Short Survey

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