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 …

Visual attention unfolds across space and time to prioritize a subset of incoming visual
information. Distinct in key ways from spatial attention, temporal attention is a growing …

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 …

What determines the functional organization of cortex? One hypothesis is that innate
connectivity patterns, either structural or functional connectivity, set up a scaffold upon which …

Altered brain connectivity between regions of the reading network has been associated with
reading difficulties. However, it remains unclear whether connectivity differences between …

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 …

Speech comprehension is severely compromised when several people talk at once, due to
limited perceptual and cognitive resources. In such circumstances, top-down attention …

Learning to read alphabetic languages starts with learning letter–speech-sound
associations. How this process changes brain function during development is still largely …

The left ventral occipitotemporal cortex has been traditionally viewed as a pathway for visual
object recognition including written letters and words. Its crucial role in reading was …

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 …