Literacy acquisition reduces the influence of automatic holistic processing of faces and houses

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 554, Issue , 2013, Pages 105-109

  Ventura, Paulo ^a   Fernandes, Tânia ^b   Cohen, Laurent ^c,d   Morais, José ^e   Kolinsky, Régine ^e,f   Dehaene, Stanislas ^g,h,i,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^f FNRS   (Belgium)

^g Collège de France ^*  (France)

^h Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*  (France)

ⁱ NeuroSpin   (France)

^j UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

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Author keywords

Analytic processing; Face processing; Holistic processing; House processing; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYTIC PROCESSING; FACE PROCESSING; HOLISTIC PROCESSING; HOUSE PROCESSING; READING;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84884728505     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.08.068     Document Type: Article

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