Hierarchical coding of letter strings in the ventral stream: dissecting the inner organization of the visual word-form system.

By F. Vinckier, Stanislas Dehaene, Antoinette Jobert, Jean-Philippe Dubus, Mariano Sigman, Leonardo G. Cohen. Neuron, 2007

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

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A ventral visual stream reading center independent of visual experience. (2011, positive): “Interestingly, previous studies in the sighted have suggested a visual anterior-posterior word processing chain along the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex, with preference for semantics anteriorly and word form posteriorly [31–33].”
Illiterate to literate: behavioural and cerebral changes induced by reading acquisition (2015, positive): “Indeed, in expert alpha-betic readers, the VWFA is organized in a posterior-to-anterior hierarchy 42–44 : posterior parts respond to individual letters 43 (irrespective of case 44 ), whereas anterior parts respond to letter combinations such as bigrams 42,45 .”
A review and synthesis of the first 20 years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading (2012, background): “…feature-to-whole word gradient along the posterior–anterior axis of the left occipitotemporal cortexwere described for both alphabetic texts (Vinckier et al., 2007; Brem et al., 2010; Nosarti et al., 2010; Seghier and Price, 2011; Woollams et al., 2011) and Chinese/Korean texts (Chan et…”
The Brain's Router: A Cortical Network Model of Serial Processing in the Primate Brain (2010, background): “Sensory areas are modeled through a hierarchy of modules, to account for convergence and increased receptive fields at higher levels of processing [53,172].”
Explicit encoding of multimodal percepts by single neurons in the human brain. (2009, neutral): “Brain imaging studies have identified cortical areas selective to voices [5,6] and visual word forms [7,8].”
A Dual-Route Approach to Orthographic Processing (2011, background): “The evidence at present suggests that orthographic processing proceeds in a posterior– anterior sweep through left fusiform gyrus, with an increase in locationinvariance (Dehaene et al., 2004) accompanied by increased sensitivity to orthographic structure (Vinckier et al., 2007).”
Revealing the co-existence of written and spoken language coding neural populations in the visual word form area (2025, unknown): “To this end, we selected six ROIs from Vinckier et al. (2007) showing a gradient of selectivity from low-level visual features to written words.”