The unique role of the visual word form area in reading.

By Stanislas Dehaene, Leonardo G. Cohen. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2011

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

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Distinguishing cause from effect – many deficits associated with developmental dyslexia may be a consequence of reduced and suboptimal reading experience (2018, background): “…Norton, 2016, for review) imaging studies have revealed abnormalities in people diagnosed with developmental dyslexia (for a comprehensive discussion of brain networks involved in normal reading see Dehaene & Cohen, 2011; Nakamura et al., 2012; Price, 2012; Pugh et al., 1996; Rueckl et al., 2015).”
Theories of reading should predict reading speed (2012, positive): “Structural brain changes occur during learning to read (Carreiras et al. 2009b), and, unsurprisingly, the brain areas that are initially activated by letters/words are very close to the brain areas that are activated by objects or faces (Dehaene & Cohen 2011).”
Reading with sounds: sensory substitution selectively activates the visual word form area in the blind. (2012, background): “…by increased responses to letters as compared to different visual object categories (such as faces, houses, and objects; Cohen and Dehaene, 2004; Dehaene and Cohen, 2011; Dehaene et al., 2010; Hasson et al., 2002; Puce et al., 1996; Szwed et al., 2011; Tsapkini and Rapp, 2010), similar to the…”
Universals in Learning to Read Across Languages and Writing Systems (2021, background): “Both visual cortex and temporal/parietal networks for lexical and unification processing are recruited (see Dehaene & Cohen, 2011; Hagoort, 2017).”
A review and synthesis of the first 20 years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading (2012, background): “…the response properties of the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex (or left mid-fusiform) become selective to learnt orthographic representations (Dehaene and Cohen, 2007, 2011) with orthographic familiarity effects observed independent of phonological or semantic familiarity (Kronbichler et…”
Brains and algorithms partially converge in natural language processing (2022, background): “This ﬁ nding strengthens the claim that this area is responsible for orthographic and morphemic computations 39,62,63 .”
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science. (2022, neutral): “B) [175], but in languages like German, where the initial letter of a noun is always cap-”
Illiterate to literate: behavioural and cerebral changes induced by reading acquisition (2015, positive): “One view 3 proposes that the VWFA contains specialized neuronal circuitry for ortho-graphic coding: with alphabetic expertise, the VWFA, much like the face recognition system 40 , develops an efficient bottom-up hierarchy of tuned cells for letters, bigrams (also known as letter pairs: for example,…”
Revealing the co-existence of written and spoken language coding neural populations in the visual word form area (2025, unknown): “The mask covered the VWFA functionally localized in our group of participants as well as those reported in the literature ( Dehaene & Cohen, 2011; Dehaene et al., 2010; Jobard et al., 2003).”