[HTML][HTML] The functional characterization of callosal connections

GM Innocenti, K Schmidt, C Milleret, M Fabri… - Progress in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The brain operates through the synaptic interaction of distant neurons within flexible, often
heterogeneous, distributed systems. Histological studies have detailed the connections …

Reading: The confluence of vision and language

JD Yeatman, AL White - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The scientific study of reading has a rich history that spans disciplines from vision science to
linguistics, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and education. The study of …

Parallel spatial channels converge at a bottleneck in anterior word-selective cortex

AL White, J Palmer, GM Boynton… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
In most environments, the visual system is confronted with many relevant objects
simultaneously. That is especially true during reading. However, behavioral data …

[HTML][HTML] Localization and functional characterization of an occipital visual word form sensitive area

B Zhang, S He, X Weng - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
In human occipitotemporal cortex, category-specific processing for visual objects seems to
involve pairs of cortical regions, often with one located in the occipital cortex and another …

[HTML][HTML] Holistic word processing is correlated with efficiency in visual word recognition

P Ventura, T Fernandes, A Pereira… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2020 - Springer
Holistic processing of visual words (ie, obligatory encoding of/attending to all letters of a
word) could be a marker of expert word recognition. In the present study, we thus examined …

The contribution of phonological information to visual word recognition: Evidence from Chinese phonetic radicals

X Liu, L Vermeylen, D Wisniewski, M Brysbaert - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
Lateralization is a critical characteristic of language production and also plays a role in
visual word recognition. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the interactions …

[HTML][HTML] The relationships between reading fluency and different measures of holistic word processing

P Ventura, HWY Tse, JC Guerreiro, J Delgado… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2022 - Springer
Recently, paradigms in the face recognition literature have been adopted to reveal holistic
processing in word recognition. It is unknown, however, whether different measures of …

Functionally separable font-invariant and font-sensitive neural populations in occipitotemporal cortex

Z Zhou, T Vilis, L Strother - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
Reading relies on the rapid visual recognition of words viewed in a wide variety of fonts. We
used fMRI to identify neural populations showing reduced fMRI responses to repeated …

[HTML][HTML] Reading instruction causes changes in category-selective visual cortex

JD Yeatman, DR McCloy, S Caffarra, MD Clarke… - Brain Research …, 2024 - Elsevier
Education sculpts specialized neural circuits for skills like reading that are critical to success
in modern society but were not anticipated by the selective pressures of evolution. Does the …

Interhemispheric transfer time differs between fast and slow healthy adult readers

HA Korkmaz, F Ari, BD Erdogan, C Kalaycıoğlu - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
The visual system forms the basis of visual word decoding processes. Reading is a left-
lateralized function. The interaction between the two hemispheres via the corpus callosum is …