Atypical balance between occipital and fronto-parietal activation for visual shape extraction in dyslexia.

Reading requires the extraction of letter shapes from a complex background of text, and an impairment in visual shape extraction would cause difficulty in reading. To investigate the neural mechanisms of visual shape extraction in dyslexia, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to exa...

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Main Authors: Ying Zhang, Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, Joanna A Christodoulou, John D E Gabrieli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3692444?pdf=render