The functional architecture of the ventral temporal cortex and its role in categorization

K Grill-Spector, KS Weiner - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2014 - nature.com
Visual categorization is thought to occur in the human ventral temporal cortex (VTC), but
how this categorization is achieved is still largely unknown. In this Review, we consider the …

The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain

E Fedorenko, AA Ivanova, TI Regev - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Language behaviour is complex, but neuroscientific evidence disentangles it into
distinct components supported by dedicated brain areas or networks. In this Review, we …

Connectivity precedes function in the development of the visual word form area

ZM Saygin, DE Osher, ES Norton, DA Youssoufian… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
What determines the cortical location at which a given functionally specific region will arise
in development? We tested the hypothesis that functionally specific regions develop in their …

[BOOK][B] Cognitive neuroscience of language

D Kemmerer - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Lack of selectivity for syntax relative to word meanings throughout the language network

E Fedorenko, IA Blank, M Siegelman, Z Mineroff - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words and
constructions from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic processing) and identifies …

Anatomical connections of the visual word form area

F Bouhali, MT de Schotten, P Pinel… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
The visual word form area (VWFA), a region systematically involved in the identification of
written words, occupies a reproducible location in the left occipitotemporal sulcus in expert …

Converging evidence for functional and structural segregation within the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex in reading

G Lerma-Usabiaga, M Carreiras… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOTC) is crucial for recognizing visual patterns, and
previous evidence suggests that there may be different subregions within the vOTC involved …

The early origins and the growing popularity of the individual-subject analytic approach in human neuroscience

E Fedorenko - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Traditional fMRI group analyses are limited in their ability to inform the human
cognitive architecture.•Functional localization helps establish a robust and cumulative …

Reading: The confluence of vision and language

JD Yeatman, AL White - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The scientific study of reading has a rich history that spans disciplines from vision science to
linguistics, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and education. The study of …

Does the visual word form area split in bilingual readers? A millimeter-scale 7-T fMRI study

M Zhan, C Pallier, A Agrawal, S Dehaene, L Cohen - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
In expert readers, a brain region known as the visual word form area (VWFA) is highly
sensitive to written words, exhibiting a posterior-to-anterior gradient of increasing sensitivity …