The Left Occipitotemporal Cortex Does Not Show Preferential Activity for Words
Alecia C. Vogel; Steven E. Petersen; Bradley L. Schlaggar · 2012 · Cerebral Cortex
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Abstract (excerpt)
Regions in left occipitotemporal (OT) cortex, including the putative visual word form area, are among the most commonly activated in imaging studies of single-word reading. It remains unclear whether this part of the brain is more…
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1093/cercor/bhr295