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Changes in the visual word processing network fine tuned beyond adolescence
April 11th, 2006
Developmental changes in the visual word processing network found to be fine tuned beyond adolescence. "Late development of specialization in the visual word processing system was examined using event-related potentials (ERP) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of word and symbol string processing in groups of adolescents (15.2-17.3 years) and adults (19.8-30.8 years)," researchers in Switzerland report. S. Brem and colleagues, University of Zurich, focused their "ERP analyses on fast visual activity: the occipital P1 (82-131 ms) modulated by physical stimulus characteristics and the occipito-temporal N1 (132-256 ms) reflecting visual...
Source: Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week (2006-04-11)
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