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SUBMITTER: Kubota EC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6969272 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kubota Emily C EC Joo Sung Jun SJ Huber Elizabeth E Yeatman Jason D JD
Developmental cognitive neuroscience 20180929
Word-selective neural responses in human ventral occipito-temporal cortex (VOTC) emerge as children learn to read, creating a visual word form area (VWFA) in the literate brain. It has been suggested that the VWFA arises through competition between pre-existing selectivity for other stimulus categories, changing the topography of VOTC to support rapid word recognition. Here, we hypothesized that competition between words and objects would be resolved as children acquire reading skill. Using func ...[more]