Functional MRI evidence for an abstract, not perceptual, word-form area.

Previous studies have found an area in left ventral visual cortex that responds more to words and pseudowords than to consonant strings. Does this area respond to the perceptual form of wordlike stimuli, or is it responding to some more abstract, linguistic property, such as orthographic regularity...

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Published in:	Journal of Experimental Psychology. General Vol. 131; no. 1; pp. 65 - 73
Main Authors:	Polk, Thad A., Farah, Martha J.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association March 2002
Subjects:	Magnetic resonance imaging English orthography & spelling Brain function localization Cerebral cortex
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost