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: Zhang, Ying, Gabrieli, John D. E., Gabrieli, Susan, Christodoulou, Joanna
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80737
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8304-4791
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1158-5692
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8938-3009