Anatomy of the Visual Word form Area: Adjacent Cortical Circuits and Long-Range White Matter Connections

Autor/inn/en	Yeatman, Jason D.; Rauschecker, Andreas M.; Wandell, Brian A.
Titel	Anatomy of the Visual Word form Area: Adjacent Cortical Circuits and Long-Range White Matter Connections
Quelle	In: Brain and Language, 125 (2013) 2, S.146-155 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0093-934X
DOI	10.1016/j.bandl.2012.04.010
Schlagwörter	Anatomy; Neurological Organization; Proximity; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Word Recognition; Reading Processes; Language Processing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Anatomie; Lebensnähe; Worterkennung; Leseprozess; Sprachverarbeitung
Abstract	Circuitry in ventral occipital-temporal cortex is essential for seeing words. We analyze the circuitry within a specific ventral-occipital region, the visual word form area (VWFA). The VWFA is immediately adjacent to the retinotopically organized VO-1 and VO-2 visual field maps and lies medial and inferior to visual field maps within motion selective human cortex. Three distinct white matter fascicles pass within close proximity to the VWFA: (1) the inferior longitudinal fasciculus, (2) the inferior frontal occipital fasciculus, and (3) the vertical occipital fasciculus. The vertical occipital fasciculus terminates in or adjacent to the functionally defined VWFA voxels in every individual. The vertical occipital fasciculus projects dorsally to language and reading related cortex. The combination of functional responses from cortex and anatomical measures in the white matter provides an overview of how the written word is encoded and communicated along the ventral occipital-temporal circuitry for seeing words. (Contains 6 figures.) (As Provided).
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