The myth of the visual word form area

By Cathy J. Price, Joseph T. Devlin. NeuroImage, 2003

711 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Leonardo G. Cohen
2. Stanislas Dehaene
3. Cathy J. Price
4. Ping Li
5. Nick Yeung
6. Martin Kronbichler
7. Wolfgang Staffen
8. Gunther Ladurner

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Cathy J. Price
2. Stanislas Dehaene
3. Leonardo G. Cohen
4. Heinz Wimmer
5. Martin Kronbichler
6. Alois Mair
7. Wolfgang Staffen
8. Florian Hutzler

Citations in the corpus

• A review and synthesis of the first 20 years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading (2012, background): “Instead, the function appeared to be one that integrated visual information with higher-level processing (Price and Devlin, 2003; Price and Friston, 2005; Vigneau et al., 2005; Devlin et al., 2006).”
• Age of acquisition: its neural and computational mechanisms. (2007, background): “The increase in activity for late learned compared with early learned items in the fusiform gyrus reflects an increased need for visual form processing (Devlin, Jamison, Gonnerman , & Matthews, 2006; Price & Devlin, 2003).”
• A ventral visual stream reading center independent of visual experience. (2011, neutral): “Another possibility is that the VWFA performs a general language function [44].”
• Between-Task Competition and Cognitive Control in Task Switching (2006, background): “The precise functional properties of some of these regions is currently a matter of some debate (Gauthier et al., 1999; Price and Devlin, 2003), and our aim here is not to make theoretical claims about these issues.”
• Specialization within the ventral stream: the case for the visual word form area (2004, background): “In a recent article, Price and Devlin (2003, hereafter P&D; see also Price et al., 2003) challenge this view by a critical examination of neuropsychological and neuroimaging evidence.”
• The visual word form area and the frequency with which words are encountered: evidence from a parametric fMRI study (2004, background): “As our study did not examine frequency effects for objects or faces, it cannot speak to the critique of Price and Devlin (2003) on the specialization of the left fusiform gyrus for visual word processing.”
• Emerging Neurophysiological Specialization for Letter Strings (2005, background): “This suggests that the fusiform network may code more general aspects of visual expertise for wordlike strings, and does not represent an isolated word-specific module (for reviews, see McCandliss, Cohen, et al., 2003; Price & Devlin, 2003 ).”
• Revealing the co-existence of written and spoken language coding neural populations in the visual word form area (2025, unknown): “The analyses presented here provided converging evidence in favor of the Heterogeneous Neural Populations hypothesis ( Price & Devlin, 2003, 2011).”