Reading of alphabetic writing systems, such as English, has been extensively studied and
most theories and models of reading are based on findings from these studies. This practice …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

The visual word N1 (N170w) is an early brain ERP component that has been found to be a
neurophysiological marker for print expertise, which is a prelexical requirement associated …

Background Literacy acquisition is a demanding process that induces significant changes in
the brain, especially in the spoken and written language networks. Nevertheless, large …

Reading, one of the most important cultural inventions of human society, critically depends
on posterior brain areas of the left hemisphere in proficient adult readers. In children, this left …

Letters, foundational units of alphabetic writing systems, are quintessential to human culture.
The ability to read, indispensable to perform in today's society, necessitates a reorganization …

Shortly after reading instruction, a region in the ventral occipital temporal cortex (vOTC) of
the left hemisphere, the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), becomes specialized for written …

The ventral occipitotemporal (vOT) cortex serves as a core region for visual processing, and
specific areas of this region show preferential activation for various visual categories such as …

This ERP study investigated the cognitive nature of the P1–N1 components during
orthographic processing. We used an implicit reading task with various types of stimuli …

EEG has been central to investigations of the time course of various neural functions
underpinning visual word recognition. Recently the steady-state visual evoked potential …