ArticleNature neuroscience2016
Is the brain prewired for letters?
Article in Nature neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Brain-wide decoding of numbers and letters: Converging evidence from multivariate fMRI analysis and probabilistic meta-analysis.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Experience-dependent cortical plasticity in response to formal schooling: Effects on networks for reading and mathematics.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Functional Connectivity Fingerprints of Emerging Reading Skill in the First Months of Schooling.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Functional Specialization of the Visual Word Form Area During Word Reading: A Multimodal Neuroimaging Study.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Contrastive learning explains the emergence and function of visual category-selective regions.Science advances · 2024Article
- Cortical Structure in Pre-Readers at Cognitive Risk for Dyslexia: Baseline Differences and Response to Intervention.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Resilience of Neural Cellularity to the Influence of Low Educational Level.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Beyond the Visual Word Form Area - a cognitive characterization of the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Review
- Graph theoretical analysis reveals the functional role of the left ventral occipito-temporal cortex in speech processing.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Face-Processing Differences Present in Grapheme-Color Synesthetes.Cognitive science · 2022Article
- Brain-behavior dynamics between the left fusiform and reading.Brain structure & function · 2022Article
- Text Materialities, Affordances, and the Embodied Turn in the Study of Reading.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Knowing Ourselves Together: The Cultural Origins of Metacognition.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2020Review
- A sensitive period in the neural phenotype of language in blind individuals.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2020Article
- White spaces, music notation and the facilitation of sight-reading.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Neuroemergentism: Response to Commentaries.Journal of neurolinguistics · 2019Article
- Neuroemergentism: A Framework for Studying Cognition and the Brain.Journal of neurolinguistics · 2019Article
- Neurocognitive mechanisms of digit processing and their relationship with mathematics competence.NeuroImage · 2019Article
- Converging evidence for functional and structural segregation within the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex in reading.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- The neural circuits of number and letter copying: an fNIRS study.Experimental brain research · 2018Article
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