Visual word processing engages a hierarchical, distributed, and bilateral cortical network

Vin, Raina; Blauch, Nicholas M.; Plaut, David C.; Behrmann, Marlene

doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.108809

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“…grammatical complexity (Kim et al, 2017). In addition to privileged connectivity with the language network, the VWFA also connects with the frontoparietal attentional regions (Chen et al, 2019;Vin et al, 2024;Vogel, Miezin, et al, 2012)). This provides one possible explanation for the VWFA's activation in e.g.…”

Section: Amodal Linguistic Activation In the Left Vtcmentioning

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Demystifying the Visual Word Form Area: Visual and Nonvisual Response Properties of Ventral Temporal Cortex with precision fMRI

Jin

Hiersche

Saygin

2023

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After more than three decades of investigation, the nature and even the existence of the visual word form area (VWFA), a region in left ventrotemporal cortex (VTC), is still under debate. Here we provide novel insight on this debate by using precision fMRI to compare the VWFA to adjacent VTC regions, amodal language, and multiple-demand networks. We find that the VWFA is unique in its word-selectivity within VTC. The VWFA also uniquely shows auditory language-selectivity, but this language responsiveness is dwarfed by i) its visual-selectivity even to non-preferred stimuli and ii) language-selectivity of the language network. We additionally identify a region at the tip of the VTC which prefers auditory language to visual stimuli. Finally, almost all VTC fROIs are modulated by attention, not just the VWFA. We propose that the VWFA primarily operates as a visual look-up dictionary of orthographic information, presumably facilitated through connections with canonical language cortex.

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Section: Amodal Linguistic Activation In the Left Vtcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Demystifying the Visual Word Form Area: Visual and Nonvisual Response Properties of Ventral Temporal Cortex with precision fMRI

Jin

Hiersche

Saygin

2023

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Demystifying visual word form area visual and nonvisual response properties with precision fMRI

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Hiersche,

Saygin

2024

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Visual word processing engages a hierarchical, distributed, and bilateral cortical network

Cited by 5 publications

References 77 publications

Demystifying the Visual Word Form Area: Visual and Nonvisual Response Properties of Ventral Temporal Cortex with precision fMRI

Demystifying the Visual Word Form Area: Visual and Nonvisual Response Properties of Ventral Temporal Cortex with precision fMRI

Demystifying visual word form area visual and nonvisual response properties with precision fMRI

Music literacy shapes the specialization of a right hemispheric word reading area

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