The Interactive Account of ventral occipitotemporal contributions to reading
By Cathy J. Price, Joseph T. Devlin. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2011
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The ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOT) is involved in the perception of visually presented objects and written words. The Interactive Account of vOT function is based on the premise that perception involves the synthesis of bottom-up sensory input with top-down predictions that are generated automatically from prior experience. We propose that vOT integrates visuospatial features abstracted from sensory inputs with higher level associations such as speech sounds, actions and meanings. In this context, specialization for orthography emerges from regional interactions without assuming that vOT is selectively tuned to orthographic features. We discuss how the Interactive Account explains left vOT responses during normal reading and developmental dyslexia; and how it accounts for the behavioural consequences of left vOT damage.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology
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In Cognitive Neuroscience
- Amir Amedi
- Leonardo G. Cohen
- Stanislas Dehaene
- Cathy J. Price
- E. Striem-Amit
- Daniel Ansari
- Jean-Pierre Changeux
- Friedemann Pulvermüller
In Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Leonardo G. Cohen
- Stanislas Dehaene
- Cathy J. Price
- Amir Amedi
- E. Striem-Amit
- Daniel Ansari
- Friedemann Pulvermüller
- David C. Geary
In Social Psychology
- Stanislas Dehaene
- Leonardo G. Cohen
- Cathy J. Price
- Friedemann Pulvermüller
- Daniel Ansari
- David C. Geary
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): “activation to orthographic forms when learning to read and decreased activation as reading becomes easier (Price and Devlin, 2011).”
- Reading with sounds: sensory substitution selectively activates the visual word form area in the blind. (2012, background): “This hotly debated issue (Price, 2012; Price and Devlin, 2011) was recently resolved to some extent by an integrative view suggesting that the selectivity of VWFA may arise from a conjunction of two properties that make it optimally appropriate for reading: (1) efficient reciprocal projections to…”
- Illiterate to literate: behavioural and cerebral changes induced by reading acquisition (2015, neutral): “39) but is efficiently predicted by top-down phonological information in expert readers only.”
- 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).”