The Distinct Roles of Dorsal and Ventral Visual Systems in Naming of Chinese Characters

• Published in: Neuroscience Vol. 390; pp. 256 - 264
• Main Authors: Zhou, Wei, Xia, Zhichao, Georgiou, George K., Shu, Hua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Ltd 15.10.2018
• Subjects: Adult; Brain - physiology; Brain Mapping; character reading; Chinese; dorsal visual regions; effective connectivity; Female; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Neural Pathways - physiology; Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology; rapid automatized naming; Reading; ventral visual regions; Visual Cortex - physiology; Visual Pathways - physiology; Young Adult; dorsal visual regions; GCA; character reading; medFC; rapid automatized naming; IPS; MFG; fMRI; ventral visual regions; ECs; VWFA; effective connectivity; Chinese; IOC; RAN; preFC

•Subjects read character and cross-matrices in the fMRI scanner.•Character reading elicited higher activation in L.MFG, L.STG and L.FG than cross scanning.•Top-down and bottom-up connections among dorsal and ventral regions were observed in character reading.•Only top-down connections were found in...