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SUBMITTER: Rauschecker AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3386120 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rauschecker Andreas M AM Bowen Reno F RF Parvizi Josef J Wandell Brian A BA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120508 24
Seeing words involves the activity of neural circuitry within a small region in human ventral temporal cortex known as the visual word form area (VWFA). It is widely asserted that VWFA responses, which are essential for skilled reading, do not depend on the visual field position of the writing (position invariant). Such position invariance supports the hypothesis that the VWFA analyzes word forms at an abstract level, far removed from specific stimulus features. Using functional MRI pattern-clas ...[more]