Connectivity precedes function in the development of the visual word form area

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1250-1255

  Saygin, Zeynep M ^a,b   Osher, David E ^c   Norton, Elizabeth S ^d   Youssoufian, Deanna A ^e   Beach, Sara D ^a,b   Feather, Jenelle ^a   Gaab, Nadine ^f   Gabrieli, John D E ^a,b   Kanwisher, Nancy ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

^f BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; LEARNING; LINGUAL GYRUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION;

BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84976392091     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4354     Document Type: Article

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