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The visual word form area: a prelexical representation of visual words in the fusiform gyrus
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Event-related fMRI was used to test the hypothesis that the visual word form area in the left fusiform gyrus holds a modality-specific and prelexical representation of visual words. Subjects were engaged in a repetition-detection task on pairs of words or pronounceable pseudo-words that could be written or spoken. The visual word form area responded only to written stimuli, not to spoken stimuli, independently of their semantic content. We propose that the occasional activation of the fusiform gyrus when listening to spoken words is due to the topdown recruitment of visual orthographic or object representations.
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“Brain imaging studies reliably localize a region of visual cortex that is especially responsive to visual words.”
From The visual word form area: expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus (2003) · cites this paper as [11]
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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).”
From The visual word form area: expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus (2003) · cites this paper as [11]
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“Passive presentation of spoken words elicits no response in this region [11].”
From The visual word form area: expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus (2003) · cites this paper as [11]
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“TheVWFAisgenerallyinsensitive to factors that influence lexical access, such as contrasts between high- and lowfrequency words [24], or between real and pseudowords, as revealed by event-related fMRI analyses [11,23,25].”
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“A large number of studies, using various methods, have evidenced a reproducible activation of the left fusiform gyrus during reading.”
From Specialization within the ventral stream: the case for the visual word form area (2004) · cites this paper as Dehaene et al., 2002
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“Activation in this region can be identified merely by contrasting word reading relative to rest, either with PET or with fMRI (Beauregard et al., 1997; Brunswick et al., 1999; Dehaene et al., 2002; Fiez et al., 1999; Paulesu et al., 2000; Wagner et al., 1998).”
From Specialization within the ventral stream: the case for the visual word form area (2004) · cites this paper as Dehaene et al., 2002
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“In agreement with our hypotheses, in every subject, the left posterior fusiform gyrus was activated by visual words but there was no trace of activation by spoken words.”
From Specialization within the ventral stream: the case for the visual word form area (2004) · cites this paper as Dehaene et al., 2002
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“Several fMRI papers have further shown that this area can be identified in single subjects (Cohen et al., 2000, 2002; Dehaene et al., 2002; Gauthier et al., 2000; Puce et al., 1996).”
From Specialization within the ventral stream: the case for the visual word form area (2004) · cites this paper as Dehaene et al., 2002
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“As reviewed above, in fMRI studies, letter-string effects have consistently localised to the left fusiform gyrus (Cohen et al., 2000; Dehaene et al., 2002) and face effects to the right fusiform gyrus (Kanwisher et al., 1997; Tong et al., 2000), suggesting that the M170 is generated in fusiform…”
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“The fusiform gyrus is involved in processing the orthographic word form (Booth et al., 2002; Dehaene et al., 2002; McCandliss, Cohen, & Dehaene, 2003), which is sensitive to letter patterns rather than”
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“It has been suggested that this area in left fusiform cortex is specialized for the processing of abstract written word forms, independently of their position, font or size (Cohen et al., 2000; Dehaene et al., 2005; Dehaene et al., 2002; Vinckier et al., 2007).”
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“Their finding is at odds with the assumed prelexical function of the VWFA (Cohen et al., 2000, 2002; Dehaene et al., 2002, 2001).”
BackgroundResultThe science of reading and dyslexia
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“(2003) suggested that this region does indeed process abstract representations of form as suggested by others (Cohen et al., 2002; Dehaene et al., 2002; Gros et al., 2001; Pernet et al., 2005), but such representations are not unique to letters.”
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“This is not really surprising because the vOT contains the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), a region specifically tuned to process letter strings (Cohen et al., 2002; Dehaene and Cohen, 2011; Dehaene et al., 2002).”
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“For example, the lITG/left fusiform gyrus closely corresponded to the visual word form area (VWFA), an area which is thought to compute structural representations of words from abstract letter representations (e.g., Dehaene et al., 2002).”
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“In particular, the location of the VWFA is highly reproducible across individuals, cultures, and reading schemes (Dehaene et al. 2002; Jobard et al. 2003; Bolger et al. 2005; Pinel et al. 2007).”
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“Neuronal ensembles in the ventral visual stream are selectively activated by wordlike visual stimuli and subserve processing of their morphological characteristics (Cohen et al., 2002; Dehaene et al., 2002; Nobre et al., 1994).”
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“It has been argued on the basis of data from healthy readers (Cohen et al., 2002, 2003; Dehaene et al., 2002), and also on the basis of neuropsychological data (Hillis et al.”
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“…cite this article in press as: Berlucchi G, Visual interhemisph lobes, Cortex (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2013.02.001 fusiform gyrus termed visual word form area (VWFA) (Cohen et al., 2000; Dehaene et al., 2002; Epelbaum et al., 2008; Dehaene and Cohen, 2011;Wandell et al., 2012).”
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“004 specifically, it was suggested that basal occipitotemporal brain regions are involved in early processing stages of word recognition, including the extraction of abstract word form representations from orthographic input (e.g., Cohen et al., 2000; Dehaene et al., 2002; Gaillard et al., 2006; McCandliss et al., 200…”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dehaene, S., Le Clec’H, G., Poline, J.-B., Le Bihan, D., & Cohen, L.
- Affiliations
- Inserm (FR)
- Institut de Biologie et de Chimie des Protéines (FR)
- Venue
- Neuroreport
- Published
- 2002-03
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 321-325
- ISSN
- 0959-4965 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2066530833
- Cited by
- 727
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 69 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 33 · 2017: 25 · 2016: 32 · 2015: 37 · 2014: 75 · 2013: 40 · 2012: 29
- FWCI
- 59.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neuroreport (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- 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 form area, fusiform gyrus, modality-specific processing, visual word recognition, spoken word processing, repetition detection, orthographic representation
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Cerebral Cortex, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Reaction Time, Reading, Speech Perception
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