ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2017
The Relationship between Intrinsic Couplings of the Visual Word Form Area with Spoken Language Network and Reading Ability in Children and Adults.
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- Literacy acquisition and functional connectivity drive the emergence and continued development of the VWFA.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Structural and pragmatic language skills in school-age children relate to resting state functional connectivity.Brain imaging and behavior · 2025Article
- The transition from vision to language: Distinct patterns of functional connectivity for subregions of the visual word form area.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Adults at low reading level are sluggish in disengaging spatial attention.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Learning to Read Strengthens Functional Connectivity Between the Ventral Occipitotemporal Cortex and the Superior Temporal Gyrus During an Auditory Phonological Awareness Task.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- Lexical and sublexical cortical tuning for print revealed by Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEPs) in early readers.Developmental science · 2023Article
- Beyond the Visual Word Form Area - a cognitive characterization of the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Review
- The Brain Connectome for Chinese Reading.Neuroscience bulletin · 2022Review
- The relationship between entrainment dynamics and reading fluency assessed by sensorimotor perturbation.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- How Visual Word Decoding and Context-Driven Auditory Semantic Integration Contribute to Reading Comprehension: A Test of Additive vs. Multiplicative Models.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- The visual word form area (VWFA) is part of both language and attention circuitry.Nature communications · 2019Article
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Abstract
Reading plays a key role in education and communication in modern society. Learning to read establishes the connections between the visual word form area (VWFA) and language areas responsible for speech processing. Using resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) and Granger Causality Analysis (GCA) methods, the current developmental study aimed to identify the difference in the relationship between the connections of VWFA-language areas and reading performance in both adults and children. The results showed that: (1) the spontaneous connectivity between VWFA and the spoken language areas, i.e., the left inferior frontal gyrus/supramarginal gyrus (LIFG/LSMG), was stronger in adults compared with children; (2) the spontaneous functional patterns of connectivity between VWFA and language network were negatively correlated with reading ability in adults but not in children; (3) the causal influence from LIFG to VWFA was negatively correlated with reading ability only in adults but not in children; (4) the RSFCs between left posterior middle frontal gyrus (LpMFG) and VWFA/LIFG were positively correlated with reading ability in both adults and children; and (5) the causal influence from LIFG to LSMG was positively correlated with reading ability in both groups. These findings provide insights into the relationship between VWFA and the language network for reading, and the role of the unique features of Chinese in the neural circuits of reading.
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