Learning to read is thought to involve the recruitment of left hemisphere ventral
occipitotemporal cortex (OTC) by a process of “neuronal recycling”, whereby object …

The level of reading skills in children and adults is reflected in the strength of preferential
neural activation to print. Such preferential activation appears in the N1 event-related …

Reading systematically activates the left lateral occipitotemporal sulcus, at a site known as
the visual word form area (VWFA). This site is reproducible across individuals/scripts …

Using fMRI, we compared the patterns of fusiform activity produced by viewing English and
Chinese for readers who were either English speakers learning Chinese or Chinese …

Previous studies have shown that reading skill in 3-to 6-year-old children is related to the
automatic activation of the posterior left ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOT) during spoken …

Past neuroimaging studies have focused on identifying specialized functional brain systems
for processing different components of reading, such as orthography, phonology, and …

As a key area in word reading, the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex is proposed for
abstract orthographic processing, and its middle part has even been labeled as the visual …

A region in the left lateral fusiform cortex has been identified to play an important role in
processing written scripts. There is evidence that this region is selectively sensitive to visual …

The visual word form system (VWFS), located in the occipito-temporal cortex, is involved in
orthographic processing of visually presented words (Cohen et al., 2002). Recent fMRI …

A number of recent studies consistently show an area, known as the visual word form area
(VWFA), in the left fusiform gyrus that is selectively responsive for visual words in alphabetic …