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

Specialization within the ventral stream: the case for the visual word form area (2004)

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by Laurent Cohen , Stanislas Dehaene

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@MISC{Cohen04specializationwithin,
    author = {Laurent Cohen and Stanislas Dehaene},
    title = {Specialization within the ventral stream: the case for the visual word form area},
    year = {2004}
}

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nce is often relative rather than absolute. We conclude that learning to read results in the progressive development of an inferotemporal region increasingly responsive to visual words, which is aptly named the visual word form area (VWFA). D 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Keywords: Word recognition; Occipitotemporal; Specialization Introduction The efficiency of reading in literate adults rests on the ability to quickly identify visual words across large variations of irrelevant parameters such as position, size, color, font, or case. This perceptual expertise requires no less than 5 years of academic training in a specific writing system (Aghababian and Nazir, 2000). The outcome of this perceptual normalization process is an abstract representation of letter identities that has been termed the visual word form (Riesenhuber and Poggio, 1999; Warrington and Shallice, 1980). We formulated the idea that an area in the midportion of the left fusiform gyrus, which activates wh

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