Reading: The confluence of vision and language

JD Yeatman, AL White - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The scientific study of reading has a rich history that spans disciplines from vision science to
linguistics, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and education. The study of …

Anatomy and physiology of word-selective visual cortex: from visual features to lexical processing

S Caffarra, II Karipidis, M Yablonski… - Brain structure and …, 2021 - Springer
Over the past 2 decades, researchers have tried to uncover how the human brain can extract
linguistic information from a sequence of visual symbols. The description of how the brain's …

Spatiotemporal dynamics of orthographic and lexical processing in the ventral visual pathway

O Woolnough, C Donos, PS Rollo, KJ Forseth… - Nature human …, 2021 - nature.com
Reading is a rapid, distributed process that engages multiple components of the ventral
visual stream. To understand the neural constituents and their interactions that allow us to …

An oscillatory pipelining mechanism supporting previewing during visual exploration and reading

O Jensen, Y Pan, S Frisson, L Wang - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Humans have a remarkable ability to efficiently explore visual scenes and text using eye
movements. Humans typically make eye movements (saccades) every~ 250 ms. Since …

Using eye tracking to investigate failure to notice word transpositions in reading

KJ Huang, A Staub - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Previous research (Mirault, Snell, & Grainger, 2018) has demonstrated that subjects
sometimes incorrectly judge an ungrammatical sentence as grammatical when it is created …

Selective inhibition of mirror invariance for letters consolidated by sleep doubles reading fluency

AR Torres, NB Mota, N Adamy, A Naschold, TZ Lima… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Mirror invariance is a visual mechanism that enables a prompt recognition of mirror images.
This visual capacity emerges early in human development, is useful to recognize objects …

Why do readers fail to notice word transpositions, omissions, and repetitions? A review of recent evidence and theory

KJ Huang, A Staub - Language and Linguistics Compass, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Most readers have had the experience of initially failing to notice an omission or repetition of
a function word, or a transposition of two adjacent words. In the present article, we review …

Prior context influences lexical competition when segmenting Chinese overlapping ambiguous strings

L Huang, A Staub, X Li - Journal of Memory and Language, 2021 - Elsevier
We report three eye-movement experiments that investigated the effect of prior sentence
context on the processing of overlapping ambiguous strings (OASs) during Chinese reading …

Spatial attention in encoding letter combinations

M Ramamurthy, AL White, C Chou, JD Yeatman - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Reading requires the correct identification of letters and letter positions within words.
Selective attention is, therefore, required to select chunks of the text for sequential …

[HTML][HTML] White matter fascicles and cortical microstructure predict reading-related responses in human ventral temporal cortex

M Grotheer, J Yeatman, K Grill-Spector - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
Reading-related responses in the lateral ventral temporal cortex (VTC) show a consistent
spatial layout across individuals, which is puzzling, since reading skills are acquired during …