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Visual Experience Shapes Orthographic Representations in the Visual Word Form Area
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Current neurocognitive research suggests that the efficiency of visual word recognition rests on abstract memory representations of written letters and words stored in the visual word form area (VWFA) in the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex. These representations are assumed to be invariant to visual characteristics such as font and case. In the present functional MRI study, we tested this assumption by presenting written words and varying the case format of the initial letter of German nouns (which are always capitalized) as well as German adjectives and adverbs (both usually in lowercase). As evident from a Word Type × Case Format interaction, activation in the VWFA was greater to words presented in unfamiliar case formats relative to familiar case formats. Our results suggest that neural representations of written words in the VWFA are not fully abstract and still contain information about the visual format in which words are most frequently perceived.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5017316/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27435995 https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616657319
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Accessing orthographic representations from speech: The role of left ventral occipitotemporal cortex in spelling
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A dual-route perspective on eye movements of dyslexic readers
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A dual-route perspective on poor reading in a regular orthography: An fMRI study
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A Dual-Route Perspective on Brain Activation in Response to Visual Words: Evidence for a Length by Lexicality Interaction in the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA)
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On the functional neuroanatomy of visual word processing: Effects of case and letter deviance
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A dual-route perspective on poor reading in a regular orthography: Evidence from phonological and orthographic lexical decisions
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Taxi vs. Taksi: On orthographic word recognition in the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex
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