Visual presentation of single letters activates a premotor area involved in writing

By Marieke Longcamp, Jean-Luc Anton, M. Roth, J. Velay. 2003

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Generalization in anti-causal learning (2018, methodology): “Because we rely on these robust models in anti-causal tasks (Longcamp et al., 2003; James and Gauthier, 2006), we are quick to infer causal relations even when there are none (Pronin et al., 2006; Matute et al., 2015).”
The influence of writing practice on letter recognition in preschool children: a comparison between handwriting and typing. (2005, background): “Assuming that the motor program associated with a letter is automatically reactivated when looking at it ( Longcamp et al., 2003 ), this mechanism might help to recognize letters among close graphic forms.”
Towards more human-like concept learning in machines : compositionality, causality, and learning-to-learn (2014, background): “Most of these studies focused on familiar characters, such as a person's native alphabet (e.g., James & Gauthier, 2009; Longcamp et al., 2003) or novel characters after extensive training”
Effects of different types of learning on handwriting movements in young children (2010, background): “Longcamp et al. (2003) have observed, among right-handed individuals, the activation of a particular area located in the left premotor cortex, both during a letter writing task and during a simple observation task for the same letters.”