Specialization within the ventral stream: the case for the visual word form area

By Leonardo G. Cohen, Stanislas Dehaene. NeuroImage, 2004

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Reading with sounds: sensory substitution selectively activates the visual word form area in the blind. (2012, background): “The VWFA was repeatedly shown not to be typically activated in a bottom-up fashion by auditory words (e.g., spoken language; Cohen et al., 2004; Dehaene et al., 2002; Tsapkini and Rapp, 2010), giving rise to the hypothesis that its function is limited to vision (Cohen et al., 2004; see also Figure…”
Arithmetic in the Child and Adult Brain (2015, background): “Increased activation in the left lateral occipital temporal cortex, an area thought to be important for visual word and symbol recognition (Cohen & Dehaene, 2004; Hart, Kraut, Kremen, Soher, & Gordon, 2000; Kronbichler, Hutzler, Wimmer, Mair, Staffen, & Ladurner, 2004; Price & Devlin 2004) was also…”
A review and synthesis of the first 20 years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading (2012, background): “, 2006) led to suggestions that learning to read tuned the receptive properties of the underlying neurons to combinations of letters (such as bigrams and trigrams) that are found within familiar words (Cohen and Dehaene, 2004; Binder et al., 2006).”
Neural systems supporting lexical search guided by letter and semantic category cues: A self-paced overt response fMRI study of verbal fluency (2009, background): “, for combining orthographic and phonological information (Cohen and Dehaene, 2004).”
Perceptual load in the reading of Arabic: Effects of orthographic visual complexity on detection (2011, result): “…be influenced by linguistic and by visuo-perceptual factors, the latter have not received as much attention until recently, thanks to findings from neuroimaging and other studies that suggest that a specific region of the visual cortex is responsive to written words (e.g. Cohen and Dehaene, 2004 ).”
Mechanisms of face perception. (2008, background): “Only a few visual object categories show functional localization in fMRI: faces, body parts, places, and words (for review see (Cohen & Dehaene 2004, GrillSpector & Malach 2004)).”
Simultaneously Uncovering the Patterns of Brain Regions Involved in Different Story Reading Subprocesses (2014, background): “This is most probably due to the activity of the Visual Word Form Area [19] that is being modulated by word length.”
From cognitive to neural models of working memory (2007, background): “For visual word recognition, a functionally specialized processing stream is thought to exist within inferior temporal cortex, representing visual words at increasingly higher levels of abstraction along a posterior-to-anterior axis (Cohen & Dehaene 2004).”
Principles of Learning, Implications for Teaching: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective. (2008, background): “As children are exposed to more and more printed words, brain imaging studies show that a structure in the visual cortex becomes increasingly active (Cohen and Dehaene, 2004).”
Cultural recycling of cortical maps. (2007, positive): “…termed the visual word form area (VWFA), a label that should not be taken to imply that this cortical sector is entirely dedicated to reading, but solely that it comprises reproducible and specific neural mechanisms for recognizing written characters (Cohen and Dehaene, 2004; Cohen et al., 2000).”