Connectivity precedes function in the development of the visual word form area

What determines the cortical location at which a given functionally specific region will arise in development? We tested the hypothesis that functionally specific regions develop in their characteristic locations because of pre-existing differences in the extrinsic connectivity of that region to the...

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Main Authors: Osher, David E, Norton, Elizabeth S, Youssoufian, Deanna A, Feather, Jenelle, Gaab, Nadine, Saygin, Zeynep M., Beach, Sara Dawley, Gabrieli, John D. E., Kanwisher, Nancy
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112165
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0340
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1158-5692
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3853-7885