Cerebral mechanisms of word masking and unconscious repetition priming

By Stanislas Dehaene, Lionel Naccache, Leonardo G. Cohen, Denis Le Bihan, Jean-Francois Mangin, J B Poline, D. Rivière. Nature Neuroscience, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Disruption of posterior brain systems for reading in children with developmental dyslexia. (2002, background): “…indicate that Logan's word analysis system is localized within the parietotemporal region, whereas the automatic, rapidly responding system is localized within the occipitotemporal area, functioning as a visual word form area (Cohen et al 2000, in press; Dehaene et al 2001; Moore and Price 1999).”
Toward a computational theory of conscious processing (2013, neutral): “Many cortical areas can be activated by an unseen stimulus, including areas of the visual ventral [9] and dorsal pathways [10].”
Conscious and Nonconscious Processes:Distinct Forms of Evidence Accumulation? (2011, background): “When information reaches this working memory stage, Dehaene and Naccache (2001) have suggested that it is always consciously accessible.”
The visual word form area and the frequency with which words are encountered: evidence from a parametric fMRI study (2004, background): “In several recent studies, Cohen et al. (2000, 2002), and Dehaene et al. (2001, 2002) provided a set of neuroimaging and electrophysiological findings to characterize the first steps of visual word processing.”
Brain Dynamics Underlying the Nonlinear Threshold for Access to Consciousness (2007, result): “This region thus activated quite strongly to subliminal symbolic stimuli, as previously reported with fMRI [18].”
Neural Mechanisms for Access to Consciousness (2004, methodology): “This suggests that a case-independent representation of letter strings can be accessed nonconsciously (Dehaene et al., 2001).”
Neural mechanisms involved in error processing: A comparison of errors made with and without awareness (2005, background): “Previous studies using degraded or subliminal stimuli suggest that the level of ACC activity is sensitive to conflict only when it can be consciously detected (Dehaene et al., 2001, 2003; Stephan et al., 2002).”
Reading with sounds: sensory substitution selectively activates the visual word form area in the blind. (2012, background): “…in the VWFA The activation of the VWFA has been shown to be invariant to changes in a variety of visual dimensions, including uppercase/ lowercase (Dehaene et al., 2001), printed/handwriting style (Qiao et al., 2010), location in the visual field (Cohen et al., 2002; but also see Rauschecker et…”
The visual word form area: expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus. (2003, methodology): “‘tAbLe’) [10]. Furthermore, when a word is repeated immediately, fMRI and N200 ERP responses associated with the VWFA demonstrate sensitivity to word repetition that is independent of changes in letter case [ 18 ,21].”
Levels of processing during non-conscious perception: a critical review of visual masking (2007, background): “…activation loop is established between the relevant posterior sensory processors and an assembly of workspace neurons with long-distance axons, distributed through the brain, but particularly dense in associative cortical areas, most notably prefrontal cortex (Dehaene et al. 1998, 2001, 2003).”
Experimental and theoretical approaches to conscious processing. (2011, background): “Crucially, this repetition effect resists major changes in the physical stimulus, such as presenting the same word in upper case versus lower case (Dehaene et al., 2001) or presenting the same face in two different orientations (Kouider et al., 2009), suggesting that invariant visual recognition…”
Capacity limits of information processing in the brain. (2005, result): “These results are consistent with the idea that visual stimuli suffering from an attentional blink are nonetheless deeply processed by the brain [15], and that visual cortex activation can occur without awareness [ 19 ,20].”