Most of us use numbers daily for counting, estimating quantities or formal mathematics, yet
despite their importance our understanding of the brain correlates of these processes is still …

The ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOT) is involved in the perception of visually presented
objects and written words. The Interactive Account of vOT function is based on the premise …

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 …

Visual word recognition has been proposed to rely on a hierarchy of increasingly complex
neuronal detectors, from individual letters to bigrams and morphemes. We used fMRI to test …

Extraordinary progress in functional brain imaging, primarily advances in functional
magnetic resonance imaging, now allows scientists to understand the neural systems …

The right hemispheric lateralization of face recognition, which is well documented and
appears to be specific to the human species, remains a scientific mystery. According to a …

Research provides increasing evidence that women and men differ in their decisions to trust.
However, information systems research does not satisfactorily explain why these gender …

The visual word form area (VWFA) is a ventral stream visual area that develops expertise for
visual reading [1–3]. It is activated across writing systems and scripts [4, 5] and encodes …

Facial expressions constitute a rich source of non-verbal cues in face-to-face
communication. They provide interlocutors with resources to express and interpret verbal …

Research indicates that developmental dyscalculia (DD; a mathematical deficiency) involves
a single brain area abnormality–in the intraparietal sulcus. This is surprising because,(i) the …