The acquisition of literacy transforms the human brain. By reviewing studies of illiterate
subjects, we propose specific hypotheses on how the functions of core brain systems are …

A long-standing debate in reading research is whether printed words are perceived in a
feedforward manner on the basis of orthographic information, with other representations …

Recording from neural networks at the resolution of action potentials is critical for
understanding how information is processed in the brain. Here, we address this challenge …

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 …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

The right hemispheric lateralization of face recognition, which is well documented and
appears to be specific to the human species, remains a scientific mystery. According to a …

Reading is a rapid, distributed process that engages multiple components of the ventral
visual stream. To understand the neural constituents and their interactions that allow us to …

The most rostral portion of the human temporal cortex, the temporal pole (TP), has been
described as “enigmatic” because its functional neuroanatomy remains unclear …

The putamen is a subcortical structure that forms part of the dorsal striatum of basal ganglia,
and has traditionally been associated with reinforcement learning and motor control …

Moments of insight, a phenomenon of creative cognition in which an idea suddenly emerges
into awareness as an “Aha!” are often reported to be affectively positive experiences. We …