Functional MRI evidence for an abstract, not perceptual, word-form area.

Previous studies have found an area in left ventral visual cortex that responds more to words and pseudowords than to consonant strings. Does this area respond to the perceptual form of wordlike stimuli, or is it responding to some more abstract, linguistic property, such as orthographic regularity...

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Publicado en:Journal of Experimental Psychology. General Vol. 131; no. 1; pp. 65 - 73
Autores principales: Polk, Thad A., Farah, Martha J.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: American Psychological Association March 2002
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        Magnetic resonance imaging
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