Developmental differences for word processing in the ventral stream

Brain and Language

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 134-145

  Olulade, Olumide A ^a   Flowers, D Lynn ^a   Napoliello, Eileen M ^a   Eden, Guinevere F ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Neural development; Occipito temporal cortex; Reading acquisition; Regions of interest; Ventral stream

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITOTEMPORAL CORTEX; PREDICTION; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL WORD FORM SYSTEM; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876470462     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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