Localization and Functional Characterization of an Occipital Visual Word form Sensitive Area

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 6723 - 11
• Main Authors: Zhang, Bo, He, Sheng, Weng, Xuchu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 30.04.2018; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 59/36; 59/57; 631/378; 631/378/2649; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Humanities and Social Sciences; Information processing; Investigations; Localization; multidisciplinary; Occipital lobe; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Visual cortex

In human occipitotemporal cortex, category-specific processing for visual objects seems to involve pairs of cortical regions, often with one located in the occipital cortex and another more anteriorly. We investigated whether such an arrangement might be the case for visual word processing. In addit...