Illiterate to literate: behavioural and cerebral changes induced by reading acquisition

S Dehaene, L Cohen, J Morais… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
The acquisition of literacy transforms the human brain. By reviewing studies of illiterate
subjects, we propose specific hypotheses on how the functions of core brain systems are …

[BUCH][B] Language at the Speed of Sight: How we Read, Why so Many CanÕt, and what can be done about it

M Seidenberg - 2017 - books.google.com
Page 1 MARK SEIDENBERG LANGUAGE AT THE SPEED OF SIGHT HOW WE READ, WHY
SO MANY CAN'T, AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT Page 2 LANGUAGE AT THE SPEED …

On the neural basis of word reading: A meta-analysis of fMRI evidence using activation likelihood estimation

KA Murphy, J Jogia, JB Talcott - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2019 - Elsevier
The neural networks that support normal single word reading have been studied extensively
with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and been heavily meta analysed; yet two …

Similarity of fMRI activity patterns in left perirhinal cortex reflects semantic similarity between words

R Bruffaerts, P Dupont, R Peeters… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
How verbal and nonverbal visuoperceptual input connects to semantic knowledge is a core
question in visual and cognitive neuroscience, with significant clinical ramifications. In an …

Effects of literacy in early visual and occipitotemporal areas of Chinese and French readers

M Szwed, E Qiao, A Jobert, S Dehaene… - Journal of cognitive …, 2014 - direct.mit.edu
How does reading expertise change the visual system? Here, we explored whether the
visual system could develop dedicated perceptual mechanisms in early and intermediate …

Individual variability in location impacts orthographic selectivity in the “visual word form area”

LS Glezer, M Riesenhuber - Journal of Neuroscience, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Strong evidence exists for a key role of the human ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOT) in
reading, yet there have been conflicting reports about the specificity of this area in …

Visual word form processing deficits driven by severity of reading impairments in children with developmental dyslexia

S Brem, U Maurer, M Kronbichler, M Schurz… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The visual word form area (VWFA) in the left ventral occipito-temporal (vOT) cortex is key to
fluent reading in children and adults. Diminished VWFA activation during print processing …

Infant formula supplemented with milk fat globule membrane, long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, and synbiotics is associated with neurocognitive function and …

A Nieto-Ruiz, JA García-Santos… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Adequate nutrient intake during the first few months of life plays a critical role on
brain structure and function development. Objectives To analyze the long-term effects of an …

[HTML][HTML] Engaging in word recognition elicits highly specific modulations in visual cortex

AL White, KN Kay, KA Tang, JD Yeatman - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
A person's cognitive state determines how their brain responds to visual stimuli. The most
common such effect is a response enhancement when stimuli are task relevant and …

A mesial-to-lateral dissociation for orthographic processing in the visual cortex

F Bouhali, Z Bézagu, S Dehaene… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Efficient reading requires a fast conversion of the written word to both phonological and
semantic codes. We tested the hypothesis that, within the left occipitotemporal cortical …