Deep in the occipitotemporal cortex lie two functional regions, the visual word form area
(VWFA) and the number form area (NFA), which are thought to play a special role in letter …

The visual word form area (VWFA), a region systematically involved in the identification of
written words, occupies a reproducible location in the left occipitotemporal sulcus in expert …

Recent research suggests the existence of a visual area selectively processing numbers in
the human inferior temporal cortex (number form area (NFA); Abboud et al., 2015; Grotheer …

The visual word form area (VWFA) is a region in the left occipitotemporal sulcus of literate
individuals that is purportedly specialized for visual word recognition. However, there is …

Current research on the neurobiological bases of reading points to the privileged role of a
ventral cortical network in visual word processing. However, the properties of this network …

A notable controversy in neurolinguistics is whether there is a particular brain area
specialized for visual word recognition within the visual ventral stream. We investigated this …

Is there specialization for visual word recognition within the visual ventral stream of literate
human adults? We review the evidence for a specialized “visual word form area” and …

The importance of the left occipitotemporal cortex for visual word processing is highlighted
by numerous functional neuroimaging studies, but the precise function of the visual word …

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 …

How does education affect cortical organization? All literate adults possess a region
specialized for letter strings, the visual word form area (VWFA), within the mosaic of ventral …