The significant role of the left midfusiform cortex in reading found in recent neuroimaging
studies has led to the visual word form area (VWFA) hypothesis. This hypothesis suggests …

Left fusiform gyrus and left angular gyrus are considered to be respectively involved with
visual form processing and associating visual and auditory (phonological) information in …

A notable controversy in neurolinguistics is whether there is a particular brain area
specialized for visual word recognition within the visual ventral stream. We investigated this …

Previous studies demonstrated that a region in the left fusiform gyrus, often referred to as the
'visual word form area'(VWFA), is responsive to written words, but the precise functional role …

Abstract fMRI was used to investigate brain organization for reading in Chinese. Subjects
were shown two-character Chinese words. A control task was used to eliminate the non …

Chinese offers a unique tool for testing the effects of word form on language processing
during reading. The processes of letter-mediated grapheme-to-phoneme translation and …

In order to separate the cognitive processes associated with phonological encoding and the
use of a visual word form lexicon in reading, it is desirable to compare the processing of …

It remains under debate whether the fusiform visual word form area (VWFA) is specific to
visual word form and whether visual expertise increases its sensitivity (Xue et al., 2006; …

Numerous functional neuroimaging studies have shown that most orthographic stimuli, such
as printed English words, produce a left-lateralized response within the fusiform gyrus (FG) …

Past neuroimaging studies have focused on identifying specialized functional brain systems
for processing different components of reading, such as orthography, phonology, and …