Fixation-related fMRI analysis in the domain of reading research: Using self-paced eye movements as markers for hemodynamic brain responses during visual letter string processing

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2647-2656

  Richlan, Fabio ^a   Gagl, Benjamin ^a   Hawelka, Stefan ^a   Braun, Mario ^a   Schurz, Matthias ^a   Kronbichler, Martin ^a,b   Hutzler, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cerebrum; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Language; Visual word form area; Visual word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMODYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964312872     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht117     Document Type: Article

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