Impact of literacy on the functional connectivity of vision and language related networks

Impact of literacy on the functional connectivity of vision and language related networks

Learning to read leads to functional and structural changes in cortical brain areas related to vision and language. Previous evidence suggests that the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), a region devoted to the recognition of letter strings in literate persons, acts as an interface between both systems....

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Main Authors: Diana López-Barroso, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, José Morais, Régine Kolinsky, Lucia W. Braga, Alexandre Guerreiro-Tauil, Stanislas Dehaene, Laurent Cohen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-06-01
Series:NeuroImage
Subjects:
Left fronto-parietal network
Functional connectivity
Independent Component Analysis
Literacy
Visual Word Form Area
Language
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920302093

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