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Evidence for Highly Selective Neuronal Tuning to Whole Words in the “Visual Word Form Area”
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Summary Theories of reading have posited the existence of a neural representation coding for whole real words (i.e. an orthographic lexicon), but experimental support for such a representation has proved elusive. Using fMRI rapid adaptation techniques, we provide evidence that the human left ventral occipitotemporal cortex (specifically the “visual word form area”, VWFA) contains a representation based on neurons highly selective for individual real words, in contrast to current theories that posit a sublexical representation in the VWFA.
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- Authors
- Glezer, L. S., Jiang, X., & Riesenhuber, M.
- Venue
- Neuron
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-04
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 199-204
- ISSN
- 0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2037380242
- Cited by
- 294
- References
- 9
- FWCI
- 31.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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