The role of left occipitotemporal cortex in reading: Reconciling stimulus, task, and lexicality effects

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 988-1001

  Mano, Quintino R ^a,b   Humphries, Colin ^c   Desai, Rutvik H ^c   Seidenberg, Mark S ^d   Osmon, David C ^a   Stengel, Ben C ^c   Binder, Jeffrey R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; object perception; orthography; phonology; visual word form area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTEX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875157156     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs093     Document Type: Article

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