Role of the superior parietal lobules in letter-identity processing within strings: FMRI evidence from skilled and dyslexicreaders

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 601-612

  Reilhac, Caroline ^a,b   Peyrin, Carole ^c   Démonet, Jean François ^d   Valdois, Sylviane ^c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Developmental dyslexia; Letter string processing; Parietal cortex; Reading; Visual word recognition; Word form system

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LETTER STRING PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE POTENTIAL; PARIETAL CORTEX; READING; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; VENTRAL OCCIPITOTEMPORAL AREA; VISUAL ATTENTION SPAN DISORDER; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CEREBELLUM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873437811     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.12.010     Document Type: Article

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