Encoding words and pictures: a positron emission tomography study
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Subjects viewed words, pictures, crosshairs, or a large X flanked by two smaller xs on either side while their brain activity was monitored using positron emission tomography (PET). When activation from the pictures, crosshairs, or Xs condition was subtracted from activation in the words condition, the left angular gyrus and Broca's area were found to be activated. In the comparison of words and pictures, additional language areas were activated. These results provide support for the classical neurological model of reading. The results also suggest that a "word form area" is near the margin of the left angular gyrus.
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The left angular gyrus was more activated for viewing words than pictures.
“The second was the left angular gyrus that was more activated for viewing words than pictures (Menard et al., 1996)”
From A review and synthesis of the first 20years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading (2012) · cites this paper as Menard et al., 1996
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- Authors
- Menard, M. T., Kosslyn, S. M., Thompson, W. L., Alpert, N. M., & Rauch, S. L.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kosslyn, Stephen M.
- Venue
- Neuropsychologia
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1996-03
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 185-194
- ISSN
- 0028-3932 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1984447553
- Cited by
- 108
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 17.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neuropsychologia (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Keywords
- word recognition, image recognition, visual word processing, left angular gyrus, Broca's area, reading, language areas, crosshairs
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Cerebral Cortex, Cerebrovascular Circulation, Humans, Functional Laterality, Male, Reading, Tomography, Emission-Computed, Visual Cortex, Visual Perception
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