Anatomy of the visual word form area: Adjacent cortical circuits and long-range white matter connections

Brain and Language

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 146-155

  Yeatman, Jason D ^a   Rauschecker, Andreas M ^a,b   Wandell, Brian A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Neurosciences Program and Medical Scientist Training Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Inferior frontal occipital fasciculus (IFOF); Inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF); Retinotopy; Sagittal stratum; Vertical occipital fasciculus; Visual word form area (VWFA)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL OCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; LANGUAGE; NEUROANATOMY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; READING; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERTICAL OCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84876483225     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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