%0 Journal Article %1 Dehaene2002 %A Dehaene, Stanislas %A Clec'H, Gurvan Le %A Poline, Jean-Baptiste %A Bihan, Denis Le %A Cohen, Laurent %D 2002 %J Neuroreport %K Adult; Cerebral Computer-Assisted; Cortex; Female; Gov't; Humans; Image Imaging; Magnetic Male; Non-U.S. Perception Processing, Reaction Reading; Research Resonance Speech Support, Time; %P 321--325 %T The visual word form area: a prelexical representation of visual words in the fusiform gyrus. %V 13 %X Event-related fMRI was used to test the hypothesis that the visual word form area in the left fusiform gyrus holds a modality-specific and prelexical representation of visual words. Subjects were engaged in a repetition-detection task on pairs of words or pronounceable pseudo-words that could be written or spoken. The visual word form area responded only to written stimuli, not to spoken stimuli, independently of their semantic content. We propose that the occasional activation of the fusiform gyrus when listening to spoken words is due to the topdown recruitment of visual orthographic or object representations.

@article{Dehaene2002, abstract = {Event-related fMRI was used to test the hypothesis that the visual word form area in the left fusiform gyrus holds a modality-specific and prelexical representation of visual words. Subjects were engaged in a repetition-detection task on pairs of words or pronounceable pseudo-words that could be written or spoken. The visual word form area responded only to written stimuli, not to spoken stimuli, independently of their semantic content. We propose that the occasional activation of the fusiform gyrus when listening to spoken words is due to the topdown recruitment of visual orthographic or object representations.}, added-at = {2007-12-16T20:00:22.000+0100}, author = {Dehaene, Stanislas and Clec'H, Gurvan Le and Poline, Jean-Baptiste and Bihan, Denis Le and Cohen, Laurent}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2c96744e32224c7c9d1f1e47dcb344648/perceptron}, interhash = {8bc42a4f52d377a738047cb22421060d}, intrahash = {c96744e32224c7c9d1f1e47dcb344648}, journal = {Neuroreport}, keywords = {Adult; Cerebral Computer-Assisted; Cortex; Female; Gov't; Humans; Image Imaging; Magnetic Male; Non-U.S. Perception Processing, Reaction Reading; Research Resonance Speech Support, Time;}, pages = {321--325}, pmid = {11930131}, timestamp = {2007-12-16T20:00:23.000+0100}, title = {The visual word form area: a prelexical representation of visual words in the fusiform gyrus.}, volume = 13, year = 2002 }