The Lazy Visual Word Form Area: Computational Insights into Location-Sensitivity

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Hannagan, Thomas ^a   Grainger, Jonathan ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOCABULARY CONTROL;

CLASSIFIEDS; MULTILAYER FEEDFORWARD NETWORKS; NEURAL ACTIVATION; SIMPLE++; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL WORD; WORD RECOGNITION;

LOCATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING ALGORITHM; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREDICTION; PROCESS MODEL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA; WORD RECOGNITION;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84887276487     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003250     Document Type: Article

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