Language-specific tuning of visual cortex? Functional properties of the Visual Word Form Area.

By Leonardo G. Cohen, Stéphane Lehéricy, F. Chochon, Cathy Lemer, S. Rivaud, Stanislas Dehaene. Brain : a journal of neurology, 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Hierarchical coding of letter strings in the ventral stream: dissecting the inner organization of the visual word-form system. (2007, background): “It is compatible with the conclusion that the orthographic regularity of letter strings, rather than their lexical status, is the relevant variable for this region (Binder et al., 2006; Cohen et al., 2002; Dehaene et al., 2005).”
Meta-analyzing left hemisphere language areas: Phonology, semantics, and sentence processing (2006, background): “The T3p semantic cluster collects peaks of contrasts that involve reading words versus consonant letter-strings (Cohen et al., 2002) or versus pseudo-words (Fiez et al., 1999; Hagoort et al., 1999).”
Cultural recycling of cortical maps. (2007, neutral): “…occipito-temporal sulcus, is easily identified by contrasting activations induced by strings of letters relative to rest or to low-level stimuli (Cohen et al., 2000, 2002), but also relative to other categories of visual objects such as faces or houses (Baker et al., 2007; Ben-Shachar et al.,…”
Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert (2018, background): “This region appears to be tuned to written language; for example, it responds more strongly to words and nonwords than to consonant strings (Cohen et al., 2002).”
Meta-analyzing brain dysfunctions in dyslexic children and adults (2011, neutral): “The peak of the age difference at (Talairach coordinates) x = -46, y = -52, z = -12, corresponds to the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) as specified by Cohen 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).”
The Neurobiological Basis of Skilled and Impaired Reading: Recent Findings and New Directions (2004, background): “Cohen et al., 2002, but see Price, Winterburn, Giraud, Moore, & Noppeney, 2003, for an alternative account); of importance, the functional specificity of this region appears to be late developing and critically related to the acquisition of reading skill (Booth et al., 2001; S. E. Shaywitz et al., ”
A Dual-Route Approach to Orthographic Processing (2011, background): “…gyrus and the angular gyrus, are thought to be involved in the mapping of orthography to phonology (e.g., Booth et al., 2003; Wilson et al., 2011), whereas orthographic processing would be performed by brain structures in ventral occipital–temporal (VOT) regions (e.g., Cohen et al., 2002).”
The architecture of the bilingual word recognition system: From identification to decision (2002, background): “Recently, Cohen et al. (2000, 2002) proposed that the posterior region of the left mid-fusiform gyrus is the visual word form area because it activates when individuals silently read brie¯y presented visual words or read words compared to false fonts.”
Specialization within the ventral stream: the case for the visual word form area (2004, background): “In Cohen et al. (2002), we indeed listed several studies that reported ventral fusiform activation during spoken word processing.”
Between-Task Competition and Cognitive Control in Task Switching (2006, background): “Previous studies have shown that tasks involving face and word stimuli activate distinguishable regions of PFC as well as occipitotemporal cortex (Petersen et al., 1989; Kanwisher et al., 1997; Fiez and Petersen, 1998; Kelley et al., 1998; McDermott et al., 1999; Cohen et al., 2002; Polk and Farah, ”
Individual fMRI activation in orthographic mapping and morpheme mapping after orthographic or morphological spelling treatment in child dyslexics (2006, background): “visual features of individual letters (Cohen et al., 2002; Polk et al., 2002).”
Reading with sounds: sensory substitution selectively activates the visual word form area in the blind. (2012, background): “, 2010), as well as its high intersubject anatomical and functional reproducibility (Cohen et al., 2002).”
The visual word form area: expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus. (2003, methodology): “pseudowords), produce more robust fMRI responses than novel but poorly structured letter strings [ 8 ].”