On the Functional Neuroanatomy of Visual Word Processing: Effects of Case and Letter Deviance
This functional magnetic resonance imaging study contrasted case-deviant and letter-deviant forms with familiar forms of the same phonological words (e.g., and vs. ) and found that both types of deviance led to increased activation in a left occipito-temporal region, corresponding to the visual word...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of cognitive neuroscience 2009-02, Vol.21 (2), p.222-229 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This functional magnetic resonance imaging study contrasted case-deviant and letter-deviant forms with familiar forms of the same phonological words (e.g.,
and
vs.
) and found that both types of deviance led to increased activation in a left occipito-temporal region, corresponding to the visual word form area (VWFA). The sensitivity of the VWFA to both types of deviance may suggest that this region represents well-known visual words not only as sequences of abstract letter identities but also includes information on the typical case-format pattern of visual words. Case-deviant items, in addition, led to increased activation in a right occipito-temporal region and in a left occipital and a left posterior occipito-temporal region, which may reflect increased demands on letter processing posed by the case-deviant forms. |
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ISSN: | 0898-929X 1530-8898 |
DOI: | 10.1162/jocn.2009.21002 |