The visual word form area: spatial and temporal characterization of an initial stage of reading in normal subjects and posterior split-brain patients.

By Leonardo G. Cohen, Stanislas Dehaene, Lionel Naccache, Stéphane Lehéricy, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, M. Hénaff, F. Michèl. Brain : a journal of neurology, 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Reading normal and degraded words: Contribution of the dorsal and ventral visual pathways (2008, background): “This region, which has been termed the “Visual Word Form Area”, is thought to house what psycholinguists and neuropsychologists have termed the “visual word form system” (Warrington and Shallice, 1980), a hierarchy of neural mechanisms for invariant visual word recognition (Cohen et al., 2000; Dehae”
The visual word form area: expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus. (2003, background): “connecting the right-hemispheric visual regions to the VWFA provoke a subtype of PA restricted to words displayed in the left half of the visual field [ 9 ,50].”
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…”
Cracking the orthographic code: An introduction (2008, methodology): “This research suggests that orthographic processing is achieved by a series of computations performed by neurons in a small strip of left fusiform gyrus in the occipito-temporal cortex (referred to as the ‘visual word form area’ VWFA, by Cohen et al., 2000).”
The time course of visual word recognition as revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data (2006, background): “However, both an ERP study (Cohen et al., 2000) and a recent MEG study (Pammer et al.”
Reading with sounds: sensory substitution selectively activates the visual word form area in the blind. (2012, methodology): “, 2000; see cross-hairs marking this location in the slice views in Figure 2), well within the small spatial variability reported for the VWFA (SD of 5 mm; Cohen et al., 2000).”
Monkey to human comparative anatomy of the frontal lobe association tracts. (2012, background): “…regions have increased in the phylogeny scale, allowing a direct link between posterior regions specialised for auditory and visual word perception to frontal regions controlling orofacial movements (Aboitiz and Garcia, 1997; Aboitiz and García, 1997; Cohen et al., 2000; Epelbaum et al., 2008).”
The fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces (2006, methodology): “Some evidence has been reported for cortical specializations for visually presented letters (Polk et al. 2002) and words (Cohen et al. 2000).”
Levels of processing during non-conscious perception: a critical review of visual masking (2007, background): “…responded only to physical repetition (e.g. for 'radio–radio', but not for 'radio–RADIO'), whereas the VWFA, which is thought to encode abstract orthographic knowledge (Cohen et al. 2000), was insensitive to case change (e.g. repetition suppression was equivalent for radio–radio and radio–RADIO).”
Imaging retinotopic maps in the human brain (2010, neutral): “McDermott, & Chun, 1997), places (Epstein, Harris, Stanley, & Kanwisher, 1999), and words (Ben-Shachar, Dougherty, Deutsch, & Wandell, 2006; Cohen et al., 2000).”
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).”
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).”
Modulation of Parietal Activation by Semantic Distance in a Number Comparison Task (2001, background): “This region alls anterior to the published coordinates of the visual ord form area (Cohen et al., 2000a), where a strong ctivation was also observed (maximum at 252, 260, 4), but where the activation was identically intense or verbal stimuli (t 5 16.4) and for Arabic stimuli (t 5 4.1; t test for…”