Efficient visual object and word recognition relies on high spatial frequency coding in the left posterior fusiform gyrus: Evidence from a case-series of patients with ventral occipito-temporal cortex damage

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2568-2580

  Roberts, Daniel J ^a   Woollams, Anna M ^a   Kim, Esther ^b   Beeson, Pelagie M ^b   Rapcsak, Steven Z ^b,c   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ARIZONA VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

foveal parafoveal vision; fusiform gyrus; letter by letter reading; pure alexia; spatial frequency; ventral occipito temporal cortex; visual recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ALEXIA WITHOUT AGRAPHIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

FOVEAL/PARAFOVEAL VISION; FUSIFORM GYRUS; LETTER-BY-LETTER READING; PURE ALEXIA; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; VENTRAL OCCIPITO-TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL RECOGNITION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALEXIA, PURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84885905877     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs224     Document Type: Article

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