Orthographic coding: Brain activation for letters, symbols, and digits

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4748-4760

  Carreiras, Manuel ^a,b,c   Quiñones, Ileana ^a   Hernández Cabrera, Juan Andrés ^d   Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni ^a  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

fMRI; Letters; Numbers; Orthographic coding; Symbols

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CODING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HANDWRITING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959449974     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu163     Document Type: Article

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