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SUBMITTER: Thesen T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4407686 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thesen Thomas T McDonald Carrie R CR Carlson Chad C Doyle Werner W Cash Syd S Sherfey Jason J Felsovalyi Olga O Girard Holly H Barr William W Devinsky Orrin O Kuzniecky Ruben R Halgren Eric E
Nature communications 20120101
Despite decades of cognitive, neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies, it is unclear if letters are identified before word-form encoding during reading, or if letters and their combinations are encoded simultaneously and interactively. Here using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we show that a 'letter-form' area (responding more to consonant strings than false fonts) can be distinguished from an immediately anterior 'visual word-form area' in ventral occipito-temporal cortex (respondin ...[more]