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Reading normal and degraded words: Contribution of the dorsal and ventral visual pathways.
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Fast, parallel word recognition, in expert readers, relies on sectors of the left ventral occipito-temporal pathway collectively known as the visual word form area. This expertise is thought to arise from perceptual learning mechanisms that extract informative features from the input strings. The perceptual expertise hypothesis leads to two predictions: (1) parallel word recognition, based on the ventral visual system, should be limited to words displayed in a familiar format (foveal horizontal words with normally spaced letters); (2) words displayed in formats outside this field of expertise should be read serially, under supervision of dorsal parietal attention systems. We presented adult readers with words that were progressively degraded in three different ways (word rotation, letter spacing, and displacement to the visual periphery). Behaviorally, we identified degradation thresholds above which reading difficulty increased non-linearly, with the concomitant emergence of a word length effect on reading latencies reflecting serial reading strategies. fMRI activations were correlated with reading difficulty in bilateral occipito-temporal and parietal regions, reflecting the strategies required to identify degraded words. A core region of the intraparietal cortex was engaged in all modes of degradation. Furthermore, in the ventral pathway, word degradation led to an amplification of activation in the posterior visual word form area, at a level thought to encode single letters. We also found an effect of word length restricted to highly degraded words in bilateral occipitoparietal regions. Those results clarify when and how the ventral parallel visual word form system needs to be supplemented by the deployment of dorsal serial reading strategies.
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“Above a threshold of about 2 spaces between consecutive letters, concomitant with performance reduction, there is a sudden increase in BOLD signal in bilateral posterior intraparietal areas that do not belong to the typical reading network (Cohen et al., 2008).”
BackgroundSelf-citationYablonski, M., Rastle, K., Taylor, J. S. H., & Ben‐Shachar, M. (2018) · Cortex · doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2018.06.011 · Cited by 42
“…studies contribute to the predominant view that skilled reading is supported by two complementary routes, the dorsal and ventral streams (Cohen, Dehaene, Vinckier, Jobert, & Montavont, 2008; Cummine et al., 2015; Dehaene, 2009; Jobard, Crivello, & Tzourio-Mazoyer, 2003; Taylor et al., 2013).”
A biologically realistic cortical model of eye movement control in reading.
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“…has been suggested that the VWFA and the ventral visual stream contribute significantly to processing of words in a canonical format, while attentional mechanisms, relying more on the dorsal stream may a role when words in distorted formats are processed (Vinckier et al., 2007; Cohen et al., 2008).”
BackgroundBlueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model
Share, D. L. (2025) · Reading Research Quarterly · doi:10.1002/rrq.603 · Cited by 45
The roles of occipitotemporal cortex in reading, spelling, and naming
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“The activation often spreads into the central part of the fusiform gyrus at various anterior–posterior coordinates (Cohen et al., 2000, 2002, 2008; McCandliss et al., 2003; Cohen & Dehaene, 2004; Dehaene & Cohen, 2011; Szwed et al., 2011) (Fig.”
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Brain mechanisms of recovery from pure alexia: A single case study with multiple longitudinal scans
Cohen, L., Dehaene, S., McCormick, S. F., Durant, S., & Zanker, J. M. (2016) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.07.009 · Cited by 38
“Those regions have been repeatedly shown to subtend attention and verbal working memory (see e.g. Chen and Desmond, 2005; Cohen et al., 2008; Schulze et al., 2011), processes which are clearly prerequisite to lexical access during LBL reading.”
Self-citationA Spatiotemporal Map of Reading Aloud
Woolnough, O., Donos, C., Curtis, A., Rollo, P. S., Roccaforte, Z. J., Dehaene, S., Fischer‐Baum, S., & Tandon, N. (2022) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2324-21.2022 · Cited by 37
Self-citationThe effect of decreased interletter spacing on orthographic processing
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Visual Experience Shapes Orthographic Representations in the Visual Word Form Area
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“Furthermore, Vinckier et al. (2006) described a patient with a left parietal lesion who exhibited severe reading impairment when words were presented in the attentionally demanding displays of Cohen et al. (2008) but no impairment for words presented in the familiar format.”
BackgroundVoxel-based lesion analysis of brain regions underlying reading and writing
Baldo, J. V., Kacinik, N. A., Ludy, C. A., Paulraj, S. R., Moncrief, A., Piai, V., Curran, B. C., Turken, A. U., Herron, T. J., & Dronkers, N. F. (2018) · Neuropsychologia · doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.03.021 · Cited by 37
Engaging in word recognition elicits highly specific modulations in visual cortex
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“…processes and described the interconnected brain regions involved in reading and speech production (Pugh et al., 2000; Joubert et al., 2004; Borowsky et al., 2006; Cohen et al., 2008; Saur et al., 2008; Steinbrink et al., 2008; Cummine et al., 2013, 2015; see also Price, 2010; 2012, for reviews).”
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“In a neuroimaging study, Cohen et al. (2008) presented participants with short French words presented at five different rotations clockwise or anti-clockwise (0°, 22.5°, 45°, 67.5°, and 90°). Participants performed an animal detection task. The behavioural results demonstrated a significant slowing of responses beginn…”
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Temporal Integration in Visual Word Recognition
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Self-citationEarly Top-Down Modulation in Visual Word Form Processing: Evidence From an Intracranial SEEG Study
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“…including the processing of word form (e.g., word length, letter order, and radical position) and high-level lexical information (e.g., phonology and semantics; Carreiras et al., 2014), which is supported by a wide variety of brain regions (Coltheart et al., 2010; Woollams et al., 2011).”
BackgroundJobard, G., Vigneau, M., Simon, G., & Tzourio‐Mazoyer, N. (2010) · Journal of Neurolinguistics · doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.09.002 · Cited by 33
(Con)text-specific effects of visual dysfunction on reading in posterior cortical atrophy
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Distinct Neural Specializations for Learning to Read Words and Name Objects
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“However, these studies either used words or letters (Cohen et al., 2008; Bosse et al., 2007), which automatically activate their linguistic associations (Ziegler, Pech-Georgel, Dufau, & Grainger, 2010), or involved categorizing visual stimuli (e.g., indicating how many elements of a particular…”
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“Cohen et al. (2008) explicitly investigated word length effects on brain activation.”
BackgroundDefault spacing is the optimal spacing for word reading
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“Furthermore, in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, Cohen et al. (2008) found that increasing word degradation, measured by manipulations in spacing, rotation, and position, induced activation of a second neural pathway in addition to activation in the visual word form area, which…”
BackgroundInfluentialAdaptation of the human visual system to the statistics of letters and line configurations
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“Images are SPMt maps (N = 18, thresholded at T N 3.12, voxelwise p b .001, uncorrected ; clusterwise p b 0.05, FDR corrected). effortful deciphering (Cohen et al., 2008).”
BackgroundInfluentialSelf-citationHow does inattention affect written and spoken language processing?
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“Such a spelling-check probably operates in a serial fashion (e.g., Gaillard et al., 2006; Cohen et al., 2008).”
Neural correlates of single word reading in bilingual children and adults
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“For instance, the right PPC may be involved in switching attention from global (word) to local (letter) levels, as well as top-down amplification of letter detectors in the ventral stream (Cohen et al., 2008).”
BackgroundTransposed letter priming with horizontal and vertical text in Japanese and English readers.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cohen, L., Dehaene, S., Vinckier, F., Jobert, A., & Montavont, A.
- Affiliations
- Inserm (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Cohen, Laurent
- Venue
- NeuroImage
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-03-01
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 353-366
- ISSN
- 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2034546135
- Cited by
- 303
- References
- 79
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- FWCI
- 17.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
- 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 › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- visual word recognition, visual word form area, dorsal visual pathway, ventral stream, perceptual expertise, intraparietal cortex, letter spacing, visual periphery, word length effect, reading latency
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attention, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Nerve Net, Occipital Lobe, Orientation, Parietal Lobe, Photic Stimulation, Reading, Temporal Lobe, Visual Pathways, Recognition, Psychology
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