The visual word form area: a prelexical representation of visual words in the fusiform gyrus

By Stanislas Dehaene, G. Le Clec'H, Jean-Baptiste Poline, Denis Le Bihan, Leonardo G. Cohen. NeuroReport, 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Reading with sounds: sensory substitution selectively activates the visual word form area in the blind. (2012, background): “The VWFA was repeatedly shown not to be typically activated in a bottom-up fashion by auditory words (e.g., spoken language; Cohen et al., 2004; Dehaene et al., 2002; Tsapkini and Rapp, 2010), giving rise to the hypothesis that its function is limited to vision (Cohen et al.”
The myth of the visual word form area (2003, background): “…irrespective of typographical case (Dehaene et al., 2001; see also Polk and Farah, 2002) and that it does not respond to same– different matching of auditory words or pseudowords (Dehaene et al., 2002), the authors have labeled this left midfusiform region the " visual word form area " (VWFA).”
Cultural recycling of cortical maps. (2007, neutral): “However, one of them, which is the focus of this review, appears uniquely concerned with written as opposed to spoken word recognition (Dehaene et al., 2002).”
Individual fMRI activation in orthographic mapping and morpheme mapping after orthographic or morphological spelling treatment in child dyslexics (2006, background): “The fusiform gyrus is involved in processing the orthographic word form (Booth et al., 2002; Dehaene et al., 2002; McCandliss, Cohen, & Dehaene, 2003), which is sensitive to letter patterns rather than”
Somatotopic representation of action words in human motor and premotor cortex. (2004, neutral): “Ϫ42 Ϫ57 Ϫ15; Dehaene et al., 2002).”
A visual M170 effect of morphological complexity (2009, background): “As reviewed above, in fMRI studies, letter-string effects have consistently localised to the left fusiform gyrus (Cohen et al., 2000; Dehaene et al., 2002) and face effects to the right fusiform gyrus (Kanwisher et al., 1997; Tong et al., 2000), suggesting that the M170 is generated in fusiform…”
On the Time Course of Visual Word Recognition: An Event-related Potential Investigation using Masked Repetition Priming (2006, methodology): “In one study (Dehaene et al., 2002), they demonstrated that regions in the right occipital cortex are sensitive to low-level visual features (repetition effects were found only for physically identical stimuli), whereas left occipital–temporal areas revealed sensitivity to more abstract features (re”
A review and synthesis of the first 20 years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading (2012, background): “…for written words than spoken words (Booth et al., 2002a, 2002b; Cohen et al., 2002), written words than chequerboards or consonants (Cohen et al., 2002); and to be invariant to the spatial location of the stimuli (Cohen et al., 2002) or the case and font of the letters (Dehaene et al., 2002).”
The visual word form area and the frequency with which words are encountered: evidence from a parametric fMRI study (2004, methodology): “McCandliss et al. (2003) justify this hypothesis by findings showing similar VWFA activation by frequently encountered visual words and never-seen pseudowords (e.g., Dehaene et al., 2002) and by high-frequency words and low-frequency words (e.g., Fiebach et al., 2002).”
Development of left occipitotemporal systems for skilled reading in children after a phonologically- based intervention. (2004, background): “…of lines of investigation indicates that a portion of the posterior reading systems, the occipitotemporal area, is critical for the development of skilled reading and functions as an automatic, instant word recognition system, the visual word form area (Cohen et al 2000, 2002; Dehaene et al 2002).”
Language-specific tuning of visual cortex? Functional properties of the Visual Word Form Area. (2002, result): “This location is in good agreement with a number of previous activation studies (for reviews see Cohen et al., 2000; Dehaene et al., 2001; Dehaene et al., 2002).”
Specialization within the ventral stream: the case for the visual word form area (2004, background): “To demonstrate functional specialization in the VWFA, one should exhibit a pattern of activation that cannot be reduced to generic visual processes, but necessarily reflects regularities of the writing system.”
Neuroconstructivism - I: How the Brain Constructs Cognition (2007, background): “…of activity for words and pseudowords (seemingly plausible nonwords made up of standard letters), but not for illegal letter symbols, suggesting an area that processes visual stimuli that look like words, prior to establishing whether they have a meaning (Dehaene et al., 2002; Posner et al., 1988).”