Intact reading ability despite lacking a canonical visual word form area in an individual born without the left superior temporal lobe

The visual word form area (VWFA), a region canonically located within left ventral temporal cortex (VTC), is specialized for orthography in literate adults presumbly due to its connectivity with frontotemporal language regions. But is a typical, left-lateralized language network critical for the VWF...

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Main Authors: Li, Jin, Kean, Hope, Fedorenko, Evelina, Saygin, Zeynep
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Informa UK Limited 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148774