Tasks and their role in visual neuroscience

K Kay, K Bonnen, RN Denison, MJ Arcaro, DL Barack - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Vision is widely used as a model system to gain insights into how sensory inputs are
processed and interpreted by the brain. Historically, careful quantification and control of …

Beyond the Visual Word Form Area–a cognitive characterization of the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex

A Dȩbska, M Wójcik, K Chyl… - Frontiers in Human …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The left ventral occipitotemporal cortex has been traditionally viewed as a pathway for visual
object recognition including written letters and words. Its crucial role in reading was …

The transition from vision to language: Distinct patterns of functional connectivity for subregions of the visual word form area

M Yablonski, II Karipidis, E Kubota… - Human Brain …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Reading entails transforming visual symbols to sound and meaning. This process depends
on specialized circuitry in the visual cortex, the visual word form area (VWFA). Recent …

Both mOTS-words and pOTS-words prefer emoji stimuli over text stimuli during a lexical judgment task

A Dalski, H Kular, JG Jorgensen, K Grill-Spector… - Cerebral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The visual word form area in the occipitotemporal sulcus (here OTS-words) is crucial for
reading and shows a preference for text stimuli. We hypothesized that this text preference …

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

R Vin, NM Blauch, DC Plaut, M Behrmann - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Summary Although the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) in left temporal cortex is considered
the pre-eminent region in visual word processing, other regions are also implicated. We …

Reading reshapes stimulus selectivity in the visual word form area

VS Chauhan, KC McCook, AL White - eneuro, 2024 - eneuro.org
Reading depends on a brain region known as the “visual word form area”(VWFA) in the left
ventral occipitotemporal cortex. This region's function is debated because its stimulus …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms underlying category learning in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex

X Luo, M Li, J Zeng, Z Dai, Z Cui, M Zhu, M Tian, J Wu… - NeuroImage, 2024 - Elsevier
The human ventral occipito-temporal cortex (VOTC) has evolved into specialized regions
that process specific categories, such as words, tools, and animals. The formation of these …

Evaluating cognitive penetrability of perception across the senses

P Vetter, S Badde, ER Ferrè, J Seubert… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
A central question about the human mind is whether perception is an encapsulated process
driven purely by sensory information or whether it is intricately linked with cognitive …

[HTML][HTML] Processing demands modulate the activities and functional connectivity patterns of the posterior (VWFA-1) and anterior (VWFA-2) VWFA

A Li, C Chen, X Wu, Y Feng, J Yang, X Feng, R Hu… - NeuroImage, 2024 - Elsevier
Previous studies have shown that the visual word form area (VWFA) has structural and
intrinsic functional connectivity with both language and attention networks. Nevertheless, it is …

The representational nature of spatio-temporal recurrent processing in visual object recognition

S **e, JJD Singer, B Yilmaz, D Kaiser, RM Cichy - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The human brain orchestrates object vision through an interplay of feedforward processing
in concert with recurrent processing. However, where, when and how recurrent processing …