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SUBMITTER: Hirshorn EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4961146 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hirshorn Elizabeth A EA Li Yuanning Y Ward Michael J MJ Richardson R Mark RM Fiez Julie A JA Ghuman Avniel Singh AS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160620 29
The nature of the visual representation for words has been fiercely debated for over 150 y. We used direct brain stimulation, pre- and postsurgical behavioral measures, and intracranial electroencephalography to provide support for, and elaborate upon, the visual word form hypothesis. This hypothesis states that activity in the left midfusiform gyrus (lmFG) reflects visually organized information about words and word parts. In patients with electrodes placed directly in their lmFG, we found that ...[more]