Sequential then interactive processing of letters and words in the left fusiform gyrus

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Thesen, Thomas ^a,b   McDonald, Carrie R ^b   Carlson, Chad ^a   Doyle, Werner ^a   Cash, Syd ^c   Sherfey, Jason ^b   Felsovalyi, Olga ^b   Girard, Holly ^b   Barr, William ^a   Devinsky, Orrin ^a   Kuzniecky, Ruben ^a   Halgren, Eric ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROLOGY; RESONANCE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84871806944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2220     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Rosazza, C., Appollonio, I., Isella, V. & Shallice, T. Qualitatively different forms of pure alexia. Cogn. Neuropsychol. 24, 393-418 (2007). (Pubitemid 46917012)
2. Patterson, K. & Kay, J. Letter-by-letter reading: psychological descriptions of a neurological syndrome. Q. J. Exp. Psychol. A. 34(Part 3), 411-441 (1982).
3. Grainger, J. & Jacobs, A. M. A dual read-out model of word context effects in letter perception: further investigations of the word superiority effect. J. Exp. Psychol.: Hum. Percept. Perform. 20, 1158-1176 (1994).
4. Dehaene, S. & Cohen, L. The unique role of the visual word form area in reading. Trends Cogn. Sci. 15, 254-262 (2011).
5. Price, C. J. & Devlin, J. T. The interactive account of ventral occipitotemporal contributions to reading. Trends Cogn. Sci. 15, 246-253 (2011).
6. Binder, J. R., Medler, D. A, Westbury, C. F, Liebenthal, E. & Buchanan, L. Tuning of the human left fusiform gyrus to sublexical orthographic structure. Neuroimage 33, 739-748 (2006). (Pubitemid 44485548)
7. Glezer, L. S., Jiang, X. & Riesenhuber, M. Evidence for highly selective neuronal tuning to whole words in the 'visual word form area'. Neuron 62, 199-204 (2009).
8. Vinckier, F. et al. Hierarchical coding of letter strings in the ventral stream: dissecting the inner organization of the visual word-form system. Neuron 55, 143-156 (2007). (Pubitemid 46994743)
9. Bentin, S., Mouchetant-Rostaing, Y., Giard, M. H., Echallier, J. F. & Pernier, J. ERP manifestations of processing printed words at different psycholinguistic levels: time course and scalp distribution. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 11, 235-260 (1999). (Pubitemid 29281524)
10. Tarkiainen, A., Helenius, P., Hansen, P. C., Cornelissen, P. L. & Salmelin, R. Dynamics of letter string perception in the human occipitotemporal cortex. Brain 122(Part 11), 2119-2132 (1999).
11. Leonard, M. K. et al. Spatiotemporal dynamics of bilingual word processing. Neuroimage 49, 3286-3294 (2010).
12. Allison, T., McCarthy, G., Nobre, A., Puce, A. & Belger, A. Human extrastriate visual cortex and the perception of faces, words, numbers, and colors. Cereb. Cortex 4, 544-554 (1994). (Pubitemid 24297017)
13. Gaillard, R. et al. Direct intracranial, FMRI, and lesion evidence for the causal role of left inferotemporal cortex in reading. Neuron 50, 191-204 (2006).
14. Mainy, N. et al. Cortical dynamics of word recognition. Hum. Brain Mapp. 29, 1215-1230 (2008).
15. Appelbaum, L. G., Liotti, M., Perez, R., Fox, S. P. & Woldorff, M. G. The temporal dynamics of implicit processing of non-letter, letter, and word-forms in the human visual cortex. Front Hum. Neurosci. 3, 56 (2009).
16. Tagamets, M. A., Novick, J. M., Chalmers, M. L. & Friedman, R. B. A parametric approach to orthographic processing in the brain: an fMRI study. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 12, 281-297 (2000). (Pubitemid 30229560)
17. Dale, A. M. et al. Dynamic statistical parametric mapping: combining fMRI and MEG for high-resolution imaging of cortical activity. Neuron 26, 55-67 (2000).
18. Dale, A. M. & Halgren, E. Spatiotemporal mapping of brain activity by integration of multiple imaging modalities. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 11, 202-208 (2001). (Pubitemid 32289407)
19. Mechelli, A., Humphreys, G. W., Mayall, K., Olson, A. & Price, C. J. Differential effects of word length and visual contrast in the fusiform and lingual gyri during reading. Proc. Biol. Sci. 267, 1909-1913 (2000).
20. Schurz, M. et al. A dual-route perspective on brain activation in response to visual words: evidence for a length by lexicality interaction in the visual word form area (VWFA). Neuroimage 49, 2649-2661 (2010).
21. Bruno, J. L., Zumberge, A., Manis, F. R., Lu, Z. L. & Goldman, J. G. Sensitivity to orthographic familiarity in the occipito-temporal region. Neuroimage 39, 1988-2001 (2008).
22. Mukamel, R. et al. Coupling between neuronal firing, field potentials, and FMRI in human auditory cortex. Science 309, 951-954 (2005). (Pubitemid 41099935)
23. Lachaux, J. P., Rodriguez, E, Martinerie, J & Varela, F. J. Measuring phase synchrony in brain signals. Hum. Brain Mapp. 8, 194-208 (1999).
24. Srinivasan, R., Nunez & Silberstein, R. Spatial filtering and neocortical dynamics: estimates of EEG coherence. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 45, 814-826 (1998). (Pubitemid 28292319)
25. Koyama, M. S. et al. Reading networks at rest. Cereb. Cortex. 20, 2549-2559 (2010).
26. Vogel, A. C., Miezin, F. M., Petersen, S. E. & Schlaggar, B. L. The putative visual word form area is functionally connected to the dorsal attention network. Cereb Cortex 22, 537-549 (2012).
27. Price, C. J. et al. Hearing and saying. The functional neuro-anatomy of auditory word processing. Brain 119, 919-931 (1996). (Pubitemid 26237188)
28. Ben-Shachar, M., Dougherty, R. F., Deutsch, G. K. &Wandell, B. A. Differential sensitivity to words and shapes in ventral occipito-temporal cortex. Cereb Cortex 17, 1604-1611 (2007).
29. Brem, S. et al. Evidence for developmental changes in the visual word processing network beyond adolescence. Neuroimage 29, 822-837 (2006). (Pubitemid 43121208)
30. Vartiainen, J., Liljeström, M., Koskinen, M., Renvall, H. & Salmelin, R. Functional magnetic resonance imaging blood oxygenation level-dependent signal and magnetoencephalography evoked responses yield different neural functionality in reading. J. Neurosci. 31, 1048-1058 (2011).
31. Flowers, D. L. et al. Attention to single letters activates left extrastriate cortex. Neuroimage 21, 829-839 (2004). (Pubitemid 38314944)
32. Libertus, M. E., Brannon, E. M. & Pelphrey, K. A. Developmental changes in category-specific brain responses to numbers and letters in a working memory task. Neuroimage 44, 1404-1414 (2009).
33. van der Mark, S. et al. Children with dyslexia lack multiple specializations along the visual word-form (VWF) system. Neuroimage 47, 1940-1949 (2009).
34. Marinkovic, K. et al. Spatiotemporal dynamics of modality-specific and supramodal word processing. Neuron 38, 487-497 (2003). (Pubitemid 36579149)
35. Solomyak, O. & Marantz, A. Evidence for early morphological decomposition in visual word recognition. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 22, 2042-2057 (2010).
36. Sahin, N. T., Pinker, S., Cash, S. S., Schomer, D. & Halgren, E. Sequential processing of lexical, grammatical, and phonological information within Broca's area. Science 326, 445-449 (2009).
37. Halgren, E. et al. Processing stages underlying word recognition in the anteroventral temporal lobe. Neuroimage 30, 1401-1413 (2006).
38. Chan, A. M. et al. First-pass selectivity for semantic categories in human anteroventral temporal lobe. J. Neurosci. 31, 18119-18129 (2011).
39. Grill-Spector, K. et al. Differential processing of objects under various viewing conditions in the human lateral occipital complex. Neuron 24, 187-203 (1999). (Pubitemid 29466158)
40. Klopp, J., Marinkovic, K., Chauvel, P., Nenov, V. & Halgren, E. Early widespread cortical distribution of coherent fusiform face activity. Hum. Brain. Mapp. 11, 286-293 (2000). (Pubitemid 33730880)
41. Halgren, E. et al. Spatio-temporal stages in face and word processing. 1. Depthrecorded potentials in the human occipital, temporal and parietal lobes. J. Physiol. 88, 1-50 (1994). (Pubitemid 24120246)
42. Halgren, E. et al. Spatio-temporal stages in face and word processing. 2. Depthrecorded potentials in the human frontal and Rolandic cortices. J. Physiol. 88, 51-80 (1994). (Pubitemid 24120247)
43. Twomey, T., Kawabata, D K. J., Price, C. J. & Devlin, J. T. Top-down modulation of ventral occipito-temporal responses during visual word recognition. Neuroimage 55, 1242-1251 (2011).
44. Francis, W. N. & Kucera, H. Frequency Analysis Of English Usage: Lexicon and Grammar (Houghton Mifflin, 1982).
45. McDonald, C. R. et al. Multimodal imaging of repetition priming: using fMRI, MEG, and intracranial EEG to reveal spatiotemporal profiles of word processing. Neuroimage 53, 707-717 (2010).
46. Oldfield, R. C. Ambidexterity in surgeons. Lancet 1, 655 (1971).
47. Jenkinson, M., Bannister, P., Brady, M. & Smith, S. Improved optimization for the robust and accurate linear registration and motion correction of brain images. NeuroImage 17, 825-841 (2002). (Pubitemid 35317016)
48. Woolrich, M. W., Ripley, B. D., Brady, M. & Smith, S. M. Temporal autocorrelation in univariate linear modeling of FMRI data. NeuroImage. 14, 1370-1386 (2001). (Pubitemid 33124185)
49. Jenkinson, M. & Smith, S. A global optimisation method for robust affine registration of brain images. Med. Image Anal. 5, 143-156 (2001). (Pubitemid 35282800)
50. Hauk, O., Davis, M. H., Ford, M., Pulvermüller, F. & Marslen-Wilson, W. D. The time course of visual word recognition as revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data. Neuroimage 30, 1383-1400 (2006).
51. Sereno, S. C., Rayner, K. & Posner, M. I. Establishing a time-line of word recognition: evidence from eye movements and event-related potentials. Neuroreport 9, 2195-2200 (1998). (Pubitemid 28338205)