The what, when, where, and how of visual word recognition

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 90-98

  Carreiras, Manuel ^a,b   Armstrong, Blair C ^a   Perea, Manuel ^a,c   Frost, Ram ^a,d,e  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Feedback versus feedforward information; Neural connectivity; Orthographic processing; Visual word form area; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; FEED-FORWARD; NEURAL CONNECTIVITY; VISUAL WORD; VISUAL WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

VOCABULARY CONTROL;

BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; REVIEW; VISION; WORD RECOGNITION;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; FEEDBACK VERSUS FEEDFORWARD INFORMATION; NEURAL CONNECTIVITY; ORTHOGRAPHIC PROCESSING; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA; VISUAL WORD RECOGNITION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892972925     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.11.005     Document Type: Review

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