Brain asymmetry and visual word recognition: Do we have a split fovea?

Visual Word Recognition Volume 1: Models and Methods, Orthography, and Phonology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 139-158

  Brysbaert, Marc ^a   Cai, Qing ^a   Van der Haegen, Lise ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203107010     Document Type: Chapter

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