Neuroimaging Reveals Automatic Speech Coding during Perception of Written Word Meaning

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 859 - 870
• Main Authors: Xu, Benjamin, Grafman, Jordan, Gaillard, William Davis, Spanaki, Marianna, Ishii, Kenji, Balsamo, Lyn, Makale, Milan, Theodore, William H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.10.2002; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adult; Attention - physiology; Brain - anatomy & histology; Brain - physiology; Brain Mapping; Female; Humans; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Reading; Speech Perception - physiology

The extent to which visual word perception engages speech codes (i.e., phonological recoding) remains a crucial question in understanding mechanisms of reading. In this study, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques combined with behavioral response measures to examine neural respon...