Anatomical connections of the visual word form area

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 46, 2014, Pages 15402-15414

  Bouhali, Florence ^a,b,d,j   de Schotten, Michel Thiebaut ^b,d,e,j   Pinel, Philippe ^g,h,i   Poupon, Cyril ^g,h,i   Mangin, Jean François ^g,h,i   Dehaene, Stanislas ^f,g,h,i   Cohen, Laurent ^a,b,c,d,j  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^g Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*  (France)

^h CEA SACLAY   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^j INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

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Author keywords

Diffusion imaging; Language; Reading; Visual word form area; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PHONEME; READING; SOCIAL COGNITION; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TOPOGRAPHY; TRACTOGRAPHY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901822929     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4918-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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