The visual word form area: expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus.

By Bruce D. McCandliss, Leonardo G. Cohen, Stanislas Dehaene. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Cultural Studies, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Neural systems supporting lexical search guided by letter and semantic category cues: A self-paced overt response fMRI study of verbal fluency (2009, background): “…with an area implicated by previous studies as being involved in the visual processing of word forms (i.e., the visual word form areas, VWFA;McCandliss et al., 2003), as well as with other word processing sites that appears to have a multimodal function; i.e., for combining orthographic…”
Reward reduces conflict by enhancing attentional control and biasing visual cortical processing (2011, background): “Specifically, scenes strongly recruit the parahippocampal gyrus, bilaterally (Epstein, Harris, Stanley, & Kanwisher, 1999 ), whereas words robustly recruit the left fusiform gyrus (McCandliss, Cohen, & Dehaene, 2003 ; Polk & Farah, 2002 ).”
The visual word form area and the frequency with which words are encountered: evidence from a parametric fMRI study (2004, methodology): “McCandliss et al. (2003) justify this hypothesis by findings showing similar VWFA activation by frequently encountered visual words and never-seen pseudowords (e.g., Dehaene et al., 2002) and by high-frequency words and low-frequency words (e.g., Fiebach et al., 2002).”
Intrinsic motivation of Chinese learning in predicting online learning self-efficacy and flow experience relevant to students’ learning progress (2017, background): “As Hsiao (2011) and McCandliss, Cohen, and Dehaene (2003) stated, a structure within the left fusiform gyrus in the visual word form area of the brain has been observed to be responsive to visual words, as it is a perceptual expertise area for their recognition.”
E-Z Reader: A cognitive-control, serial-attention model of eye-movement behavior during reading (2006, methodology): “A source localization algorithm (LORETA) also indicated that this component most likely originated from the left extrastriate cortex and left fusiform gyrus – the classic ‘‘word-form’’ areas that are widely thought to be responsible for orthographic processing ( McCandliss, Cohen, & Dehaene, 2003 ).”
The time course of visual word recognition as revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data (2006, methodology): “Activity in the LFG has been associated with the computation of an abstract visual word form from the visual input, performed by a neural system that was ''tuned'' for this purpose by learning and exposure to written language (McCandliss et al., 2003; Cohen et al., 2004).”
Letter processing automatically recruits a sensory-motor brain network. (2006, background): “Although this area is near the visual word form area escribed by Cohen and colleagues (Cohen & Dehaene, 2004; cCandliss et al., 2003), at least one study dissociates selecivity for single letters from that for words and pseudowords, oth within the left fusiform gyrus (James et al., 2005).”
Neural activity that predicts subsequent memory and forgetting: A meta-analysis of 74 fMRI studies (2011, methodology): “The peak coordinates (xyz = −46, − 50, − 24) in the left anterior fusiform region were virtually identical to those previously described as the " visual word form " region (for a review, see McCandliss et al., 2003).”