Automatic Top-Down Processing Explains Common Left Occipito-Temporal Responses to Visual Words and Objects
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Automatic Top-Down Processing Explains Common Left Occipito-Temporal Responses to Visual Words and Objects
Previous studies have demonstrated that a region in the left ventral occipito-temporal (LvOT) cortex is highly selective to the visual forms of written words and objects relative to closely matched visual stimuli. Here, we investigated why LvOT activation is not higher for reading than picture naming even though written words and pictures of objects have grossly different visual forms. To compa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cerebral Cortex
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1047-3211,1460-2199
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq063