Word selectivity in high-level visual cortex and reading skill

Word-selective neural responses in human ventral occipito-temporal cortex (VOTC) emerge as children learn to read, creating a visual word form area (VWFA) in the literate brain. It has been suggested that the VWFA arises through competition between pre-existing selectivity for other stimulus categor...

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Main Authors: Emily C. Kubota, Sung Jun Joo, Elizabeth Huber, Jason D. Yeatman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-04-01
Series:Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187892931830080X