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The visual word form area: expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus
Abstract
Brain imaging studies reliably localize a region of visual cortex that is especially responsive to visual words. This brain specialization is essential to rapid reading ability because it enhances perception of words by becoming specifically tuned to recurring properties of a writing system. The origin of this specialization poses a challenge for evolutionary accounts involving innate mechanisms for functional brain organization. We propose an alternative account, based on studies of other forms of visual expertise (i.e. bird and car experts) that lead to functional reorganization. We argue that the interplay between the unique demands of word reading and the structural constraints of the visual system lead to the emergence of the Visual Word Form Area.
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The paper reviews evidence that a left fusiform region, the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), is reliably activated by visual words and shows abstract, prelexical tuning to orthographic structure. It proposes that this specialization arises through reading-driven perceptual expertise rather than an innate word-recognition module.
Key findings
- The VWFA localizes to the left occipitotemporal sulcus bordering the fusiform gyrus, with a group peak at approximately x = −43, y = −54, z = −12 mm; this peak is found in over 90% of individual subject scans, with a standard deviation of <5 mm.
- The region responds to visual words and pseudowords more than control stimuli, shows case/font/size and left–right visual-field invariance, is activated even without awareness, and is sensitive to orthographic regularity but generally not to lexical frequency or real-versus-pseudoword contrasts.
- The authors argue the VWFA is a case of perceptual expertise: writing is only ~5400 years old, too recent for dedicated evolutionary selection, and VWFA activity correlates with grapheme–phoneme decoding ability even when age is controlled.
- Neuropsychological evidence links pure alexia and left-visual-field word-reading deficits to damage or disconnection around the VWFA; adults with developmental dyslexia show reduced VWFA activation to words and pseudowords.
Methods
- Review and synthesis of prior neuroimaging studies (fMRI, PET, ERP, MEG, intracranial recordings), neuropsychological lesion evidence, developmental studies, and visual-expertise research; no new empirical data are presented.
- Localization claims draw on reviews of over 25 group experiments; developmental evidence includes children aged 7–18 years and behavioral/ERP studies in first-graders and older children.
- Main analysis is qualitative convergence across experimental contrasts and populations, leading to a proposed functional-anatomical model of visual word reading.
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- The paper does not include a formal limitations section. It states caveats: the term VWFA need not imply sole dedication to word recognition, object and face recognition can also activate this region, other regions can be modulated by visual word forms, and projections from the VWFA to lexical, semantic, and phonological systems are less clearly defined.
- Evident from the text: this is a review rather than a new experiment, some cited findings are “in press,” and the functional-anatomical model is described as tentative.
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“The origin of this specialization poses a challenge for evolutionary accounts involving innate mechanisms for functional brain organization.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Writing was invented about 5400 years ago.
- Rests on an assumption: 5400 years is insufficient time for selective pressures to engineer a specialized module for visual word recognition.
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“We argue that the interplay between the unique demands of word reading and the structural constraints of the visual system lead to the emergence of the Visual Word Form Area.”
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“Several lines of cognitive evidence indicate that the perceptual mechanisms that support word recognition rest on a critical process that groups the letters of a word together into an integrated perceptual unit (i.e. a 'visual word form').”
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“Brain imaging studies reliably localize a region of visual cortex that is especially responsive to visual words.”
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- Not checked yetcites [8] Cohen, 2002, Language-specific tuning of visual cortex? Functional properties of the visual word form area, Brain source
- Not checked yetcites [9] Cohen, 2000, The visual word form area: spatial and temporal characterization of an initial stage of reading in normal subjects and posterior split-brain patients, Brain source
- Not checked yetcites [10] Polk, 2002, Functional MRI evidence for an abstract, not perceptual, word-form area, J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. source
- Not checked yetcites [11] Dehaene, 2002, The visual word form area: a prelexical representation of visual words in the fusiform gyrus, Neuroreport source
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“Within less than 250 ms of viewing a written word, the visual system extracts the information needed to identify its linguistic significance, despite wide variations in print, script, font, size and retinal position.”
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- Not checked yetcites [1] Rayner, 1989
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“Literate adults possess a special form of visual expertise that allows their visual system to process words efficiently.”
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- Not checked yetcites [1] Rayner, 1989
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“This brain specialization is essential to rapid reading ability because it enhances perception of words by becoming specifically tuned to recurring properties of a writing system.”
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“The response properties of the VWFA demonstrate a form of tuning to learned letter stimuli, which produce greater activity than well-controlled pseudoletters, that can be measured by blocks of PET data [19], as well by the first 200 ms of activity in MEG and intracranial electrical recordings [16].”
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“Nevertheless, we argue that this region of the visual system must contain a population of neurons that, as an ensemble, is tuned to invariant stimulus properties and structural regularities characteristic of written words.”
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“Consistent with the rapid time course of visual word recognition, event-related potentials (ERPs) recorded over left posterior visual regions within 150-200 ms demonstrate sensitivity to words relative to other stimuli that control for visual features [12,13].”
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“Chronometric studies show that the speed of word recognition is remarkably uninfluenced by the number of letters present in a 3-6-letter word, indicating a form of parallel processing of the letters [2].”
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- Not checked yetcites [2] Nazir, 1998, Letter legibility and visual word recognition, Mem. Cogn. source
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“Finally, converging neuropsychological evidence indicates that selective damage to the left fusiform region impairs visual but not auditory word recognition (Box 1).”
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“This finding is robust enough to identify a significant peak of activation in over 90% of individual subject scans, with a standard deviation of , 5 mm [8-11] (Fig. 1).”
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- Not checked yetcites [8] Cohen, 2002, Language-specific tuning of visual cortex? Functional properties of the visual word form area, Brain source
- Not checked yetcites [9] Cohen, 2000, The visual word form area: spatial and temporal characterization of an initial stage of reading in normal subjects and posterior split-brain patients, Brain source
- Not checked yetcites [10] Polk, 2002, Functional MRI evidence for an abstract, not perceptual, word-form area, J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. source
- Not checked yetcites [11] Dehaene, 2002, The visual word form area: a prelexical representation of visual words in the fusiform gyrus, Neuroreport source
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“This process is highly sensitive to the abstract structural properties of the writing system, but largely insensitive to non-essential variations in visual features such as case and font [1].”
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- Not checked yetcites [1] Rayner, 1989
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“Finally, these perceptual operations adapt well to large variations in surface features of word stimuli, such as changes in size, case, and font, and demonstrate significant transfer of priming benefits across such variations [1].”
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- Not checked yetcites [1] Rayner, 1989
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“IT neurons have vast receptive fields and respond selectively to certain objects or parts of objects across large changes in size, position and illumination [39,40].”
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- Not checked yetcites [39] Tanaka, 2003, Columns for complex visual object features in inferotemporal cortex: clustering of cells with similar but slightly different stimulus selectivities, Cereb. Cortex source
- Not checked yetcites [40] Einhauser, 2002, Learning the invariance properties of complex cells from their responses to natural stimuli, Eur. J. Neurosci. source
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“For example, inferotemporal (IT) cortex is well known for its role in invariant object recognition.”
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- Not checked yetcites [39] Tanaka, 2003, Columns for complex visual object features in inferotemporal cortex: clustering of cells with similar but slightly different stimulus selectivities, Cereb. Cortex source
- Not checked yetcites [40] Einhauser, 2002, Learning the invariance properties of complex cells from their responses to natural stimuli, Eur. J. Neurosci. source
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“The hypothesis of a progressive specialization of the left VWFA over the course of reading acquisition avoids problems inherent to the notion of a ready-made 'word recognition module'.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Writing was invented about 5400 years ago.
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“Although enhanced abilities to perceive well-structured letter strings appear early in the reading process, such effects are restricted to high-frequency words and do not generalize to novel strings until 10-13 years of age [4] (although see [35]).”
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- Not checked yetcites [4] Gibson, 1962, The role of grapheme–phoneme correspondence in the perception of words, Am. J. Psychol. source
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“Sensitivity to increasingly larger visual units varies along a posterior-toanterior gradient, whereas sensitivity to increasingly eccentric sectors of the retina varies along a lateral-tomesialgradient.”
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- Not checked yetcites [43] Malach, 2002, The topography of high-order human object areas, Trends Cogn. Sci. source
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“Much of the ventral processing stream is already well adapted to the invariant recognition of fine basic shapes in the fovea.”
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“Unlike adults, 6- to 7-year-old children (American first-graders) demonstrate robust word-length effects, which gradually diminish over the following years but are still detectable as late as grade 5 (11-12 years old) [34].”
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- Not checked yetcites [34] Aghababian, 2000, Developing normal reading skills: aspects of the visual processes underlying word recognition, J. Exp. Child Psychol. source
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“In contrast to global alexia, PA patients are able to identify single letters, and develop letter-by-letter reading strategies resulting in reading latencies that increase by hundreds of milliseconds for each additional letter [49].”
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- Not checked yetcites [49] Cohen, L. et al. (2003) Visual word recognition in the left and right hemispheres: anatomical and functional correlates of peripheral alexias. Cereb. Cortex (in press). source
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“Developmental studies of the N200 ERP responses to letter strings demonstrate a similar pattern, suggesting that 10-year-olds produce adult-like responses to highfrequency words but fail to generalize such responses to pseudowords [21].”
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- Not checked yetcites [21] Posner, 1999, Brain circuitry during reading
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“Such differences have not yet been associated with neuropathology in this region, but mayinstead reflect the absence of a specialization that accrues over the course of years of successful reading experience [55].”
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [55] McCandliss, B.D. and Noble, K. (2003) The development of reading impairment: a cognitive neuroscience model. Mental Retard. Dev. Disab. Res. Rev. (in press). source
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“This view on the origin of the VWFA implies that the specialization process should be protracted over a long period of experience and that the response properties of the VWFA should evolve in parallel with the rise of cognitive hallmarks of expertise.”
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“Although the precise projections from VWFA to systems involved in lexical, semantic and phonological processes are currently less clearly defined, functional areas probably include the left angular gyrus [52], left inferior frontal cortex [53], and temporal regions anterior to the VWFA [54].”
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- Not checked yetcites [52] Horwitz, 1998, Functional connectivity of the angular gyrus in normal reading and dyslexia, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. source
- Not checked yetcites [53] Bokde, 2001, Functional interactions of the inferior frontal cortex during the processing of words and word-like stimuli, Neuron source
- Not checked yetcites [54] Giraud, 2001, The constraints functional neuroanatomy places on classical models of auditory word processing, J. Cogn. Neurosci. source
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“Separate pathways in left and right hemispheres are integrated in the left lateralized Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), which mediates between visually specific input, and moreabstract linguistic areas responsible for lexical, semantic and phonological processes.”
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“Finally, ventral visual regions receive top-down attentional influences associated with left and right parietal regions that are likely to affect all processing levels, and whose impairment might therefore lead to various forms of neglect dyslexia.”
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Writing was invented about 5400 years ago.
“given that the cultural invention of writing upon which this specialization is predicated did not exist until , 5400 years ago”
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5400 years is insufficient time for selective pressures to engineer a specialized module for visual word recognition.
“which is insufficient time for selective pressures to engineer a specialized 'module' for visual word recognition.”
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The VWFA is left lateralized in most subjects.
“Although the VWFA is left lateralized in most subjects”
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“we used NeuroSynth to replicate previous findings of visual category-specific activation in regions such as the fusiform face area (FFA12) and visual word form area (VWFA13”
From Large-scale automated synthesis of human functional neuroimaging data. (2011) · cites this paper as [13]
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“Interestingly, the region of posterior temporal cortex more active for the letter than category fluency conditions overlaps with an area implicated by previous studies as being involved in the visual processing of word forms (i.e., the visual word form areas, VWFA; McCandliss et al., 2003), as well as with other word processing sites that appears to have a multimodal function; i.e., for combining”
From Neural systems supporting lexical search guided by letter and semantic category cues: a self-paced overt response fMRI study of verbal fluency (2010) · cites this paper as McCandliss et al., 2003
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“This cortex is partially plastic and can, during ontogenesis, become progressively attuned to the requirements of reading (McCandliss et al., 2003).”
From Specialization within the ventral stream: the case for the visual word form area (2004) · cites this paper as McCandliss et al., 2003
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“Finally, it should be remembered that it takes years for children to develop expert word recognition (Aghababian and Nazir, 2000), and that the emergence of this expertise correlates with the amount of activation of the VWFA by letter strings in normal and dyslexic children (McCandliss et al., 2003; Shaywitz et al., 2002; Temple, 2002).”
From Specialization within the ventral stream: the case for the visual word form area (2004) · cites this paper as McCandliss et al., 2003
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“The left-FFG was found to be involved in letter identification and reading (McCandliss et al., 2003; Dehaene and Cohen, 2011; McNorgan et al., 2013).”
From Functional neuroimaging of visuospatial working memory tasks enables accurate detection of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (2015) · cites this paper as McCandliss et al., 2003
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§ The perceptual expertise account · p. 4
“Subjects were engaged in a semantic classification task on target words and were not unaware of the presence of primes.”
§ The perceptual expertise account · p. 4
“This suggests that this area holds a case-invariant neural code for visual words and that this code can be activated automatically without awareness.”
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- Authors
- McCandliss, B. D., Cohen, L., & Dehaene, S.
- Affiliations
- Cornell University (US)
- Inserm (FR)
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- McCandliss, Bruce D.
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2003-07
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 293-299
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- W2143709903
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- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
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- visual word form area, fusiform gyrus, reading, visual word recognition, visual expertise, functional reorganization, brain specialization, writing systems, visual cortex
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