Adding words to the brain’s visual dictionary: Novel word learning selectively sharpens orthographic representations in the VWFA

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4965-4972

  Glezer, Laurie S ^a   Kim, Judy ^a   Rule, Josh ^a   Jiang, Xiong ^a   Riesenhuber, Maximilian ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Learning; Object recognition; Plasticity; Reading; VWFA

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSORY STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL WORD FORM AREA; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITTEN LANGUAGE; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84925873049     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4031-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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