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SUBMITTER: Zhou Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6328158 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhou Zhiheng Z Whitney Carol C Strother Lars L
PloS one 20190110 1
Lexical embedding is common in all languages and elicits mutual orthographic interference between an embedded word and its carrier. The neural basis of such interference remains unknown. We employed a novel fMRI prime-target embedded word paradigm to test for involvement of a visual word form area (VWFA) in left ventral occipitotemporal cortex in co-activation of embedded words and their carriers. Based on the results of related fMRI studies we predicted either enhancement or suppression of fMRI ...[more]