A ventral visual stream reading center independent of visual experience.

By Lior Reich, Marcin Szwed, Leonardo G. Cohen, Amir Amedi. 2011

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The brain as a flexible task machine: implications for visual rehabilitation using noninvasive vs. invasive approaches. (2012, background): “Visual-to-auditory SSD Vision (a) (c) (b) Sighted Sighted + blind Convergence of blind (orange) and sighted (blue) Adapted from Reich et al. 2011 Visual words in the sighted p < 0.0005 p < 0.05 (Corr.) p < 0.0005 p < 0.05 (Corr.)”
Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science. (2013, unknown): “…any statistically valid correlations, registered within the increasingly information-integrating (or ‘metamodal’ - Pascual-Leone and Hamilton (2001), Reich et al (2011)) areas towards the top of the processing hierarchy, can inform the predictions that cascade down, through what were previously…”
Illiterate to literate: behavioural and cerebral changes induced by reading acquisition (2015, unknown): “Although such data strongly suggest orthographic tuning, the term ‘visual word form area’ has been challenged by recent observations that the VWFA site also emerges at an identical cortical location when congenitally blind adults learn to read in Braille 52,53 or learn to recognize letter shapes usi”
The origins of metamodality in visual object area LO: Bodily topographical biases and increased functional connectivity to S1 (2016, unknown): “For instance, it was shown that Braille reading activates the visual word form area (VWFA, Reich et al., 2011), and that haptic object recognition by touch or using visual-to-auditory substitution recruits the object related lateral occipital complex (LOC, Amedi et al., 2007, 2010), leading to the…”
Reading with sounds: sensory substitution selectively activates the visual word form area in the blind. (2012, methodology): “Similar to the activation in the sighted for letters relative to the baseline condition (see Figure 2A), the congenitally blind group showed bilateral extensive activation of the occipito-temporal cortex for SSD letters (see Figure 2B, as seen previously in blind adults reading Braille; Burton et al”
A review and synthesis of the first 20 years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading (2012, background): “The same left ventral occipitotemporal site also appears to function as a multi-modal integration area in the absence of visual inputs as indicated by its response during non-visual braille reading in congenitally blindparticipants (Büchel et al., 1998; Reich et al., 2011).”
ind the blind brain to understand the sighted one ! Is there a upramodal cortical functional architecture ? (2014, background): “…(2011) fMRI 7 7 Delayed matching-to-sample of 3D geometric configurations Parahippocampal place area and retrosplenial cortex Spatial layout coding 30 Reich et al. (2011) fMRI 8 Tactile Braille word and non-word reading occipIto-temporal sulcus Word representation 31 Collignon et al. (2011b) fMRI…”
Flexibility and Stability in Sensory Processing Revealed Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution (2014, result): “Finally, our results do not exclude the possibility of long-term plasticity of the system, following prolonged learning, or in cases of radical changes in the sensory input as in sensory deprivation (Bavelier et al. 2006, 2012; Reich et al. 2011; Striem-Amit et al. 2012a).”
Revealing the co-existence of written and spoken language coding neural populations in the visual word form area (2025, unknown): “For instance, studies conducted on congenitally blind readers showed responses to Braille script in tactile modality ( Reich et al., 2011) and to letter shapes coded by auditory soundscapes ( Striem-Amit et al., 2012).”