A Ventral Visual Stream Reading Center Independent of Sensory Modality and Visual Experience

The Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) is a ventral-temporal-visual area that develops expertise for visual reading. It encodes letter-strings irrespective of case, font, or location in the visual-field, with striking anatomical reproducibility across individuals. In the blind, reading can be achieved usi...

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Main Authors: Lior Reich, Ella Striem-Amit, Marcin Szwed, Ornella Dakwar, Miri Guendelman, Laurent Cohen, Amir Amedi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2011-10-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1068/ic896