ReviewAnnual review of psychology2012
Learning to see words.
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72 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Neurodevelopmental commonalities in cognitive control networks for mathematics and reading in meta-analysis of 3308 participants.Nature communications · 2025Pooled it
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- Phoneme and word recognition in the auditory ventral stream.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2012Pooled it
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- Revealing the co-existence of written and spoken language coding neural populations in the visual word form area.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- White matter associations with spelling performance.Brain structure & function · 2024Article
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- The position of visual word forms in the anatomical and representational space of visual categories in occipitotemporal cortex.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Hominoid-specific sulcal variability is related to face perception ability.Brain structure & function · 2023Article
- Examining Shared Reading and White Matter Organization in Kindergarten in Relation to Subsequent Language and Reading Abilities: A Longitudinal Investigation.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2023Article
- Stroke disconnectome decodes reading networks.Brain structure & function · 2022Article
- Home language and literacy environment and its relationship to socioeconomic status and white matter structure in infancy.Brain structure & function · 2022Article
- General object-based features account for letter perception.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- The lexical categorization model: A computational model of left ventral occipito-temporal cortex activation in visual word recognition.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Multimodal brain features at 3 years of age and their relationship with pre-reading measures 1 year later.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Aberrant default mode connectivity in adolescents with early-onset psychosis: A resting state fMRI study.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2022Article
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Abstract
Skilled reading requires recognizing written words rapidly; functional neuroimaging research has clarified how the written word initiates a series of responses in visual cortex. These responses are communicated to circuits in ventral occipitotemporal (VOT) cortex that learn to identify words rapidly. Structural neuroimaging has further clarified aspects of the white matter pathways that communicate reading signals between VOT and language systems. We review this circuitry, its development, and its deficiencies in poor readers. This review emphasizes data that measure the cortical responses and white matter pathways in individual subjects rather than group differences. Such methods have the potential to clarify why a child has difficulty learning to read and to offer guidance about the interventions that may be useful for that child.
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