ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2018
The Ventral Anterior Temporal Lobe has a Necessary Role in Exception Word Reading.
Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Preventing Children From Developing Dyslexia: A Premature Writing Hypothesis.Perceptual and motor skills · 2022Article
- Language distance in orthographic transparency affects cross-language pattern similarity between native and non-native languages.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
- Taking the sublexical route: brain dynamics of reading in the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2020Article
- More subjects are required for ventrolateral than dorsolateral prefrontal TMS because of intolerability and potential drop-out.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
An influential account of reading holds that words with exceptional spelling-to-sound correspondences (e.g., PINT) are read via activation of their lexical-semantic representations, supported by the anterior temporal lobe (ATL). This account has been inconclusive because it is based on neuropsychological evidence, in which lesion-deficit relationships are difficult to localize precisely, and functional neuroimaging data, which is spatially precise but cannot demonstrate whether the ATL activity is necessary for exception word reading. To address these issues, we used a technique with good spatial specificity-repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)-to demonstrate a necessary role of ATL in exception word reading. Following rTMS to left ventral ATL, healthy Japanese adults made more regularization errors in reading Japanese exception words. We successfully simulated these results in a computational model in which exception word reading was underpinned by semantic activations. The ATL is critically and selectively involved in reading exception words.
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