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  04 December 2023 | Open Access

  Longitudinal development of category representations in ventral temporal cortex predicts word and face recognition

  Viewing categories like faces or words elicits unique patterns of responses in high-level visual cortex. Here, the authors show that distributed patterns for faces and words become more distinct during childhood and predict children’s recognition ability.

  • Marisa Nordt
  • , Jesse Gomez
  •  & Kalanit Grill-Spector

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  24 October 2023 | Open Access

  The spatiotemporal dynamics of semantic integration in the human brain

  Limitations of spatiotemporal resolution have rendered it difficult to isolate language. Here, intracranial recordings were used to map semantic processes pertaining to sentence integration, unveiling complementary roles for frontotemporal brain regions.

  • Elliot Murphy
  • , Kiefer J. Forseth
  •  & Nitin Tandon

• Article
  02 September 2021 | Open Access

  Neural evidence for lexical parafoveal processing

  When reading, we extract information about upcoming words before we saccade to them. Here the authors provide insights on the neural mechanisms supporting this previewing process using MEG data, and show an association between previewing effects and reading speed.

  • Yali Pan
  • , Steven Frisson
  •  & Ole Jensen

• Article
  04 August 2020 | Open Access

  The inferior temporal cortex is a potential cortical precursor of orthographic processing in untrained monkeys

  The neuronal mechanisms underlying recognition of written letters remain unknown. Here, the authors show that populations of neurons in the ventral visual pathway of macaque monkeys encode orthographic stimuli, indicating that this pathway might be a precursor of orthographic processing abilities.

  • Rishi Rajalingham
  • , Kohitij Kar
  •  & James J. DiCarlo

• Article
  16 January 2020 | Open Access

  Word contexts enhance the neural representation of individual letters in early visual cortex

  Letters are more easily identified when embedded in a word. Here, the authors show that word contexts can enhance letter information in early visual cortex, suggesting that the advantage offered by words occurs already during early perceptual processing.

  • Micha Heilbron
  • , David Richter
  •  & Floris P. de Lange

• Article
  08 June 2018 | Open Access

  Rapid and widespread white matter plasticity during an intensive reading intervention

  White matter properties correlate with cognitive performance in a number of domains. Here the authors show that altering a child’s educational environment though a targeted intervention program induces rapid, large-scale changes in the white matter, and that these changes track the learning process.

  • Elizabeth Huber
  • , Patrick M. Donnelly
  •  & Jason D. Yeatman

• Article
  18 July 2016 | Open Access

  Dynamic reconfiguration of the default mode network during narrative comprehension

  Default mode network (DMN) is strongly modulated by idiosyncratic internal processes, but its involvement in processing external stimuli is unclear. Here, Simony and colleagues use an inter-subject functional correlation approach to extract DMN states that track stimulus features and behaviour.

  • Erez Simony
  • , Christopher J Honey
  •  & Uri Hasson

• Article | 12 February 2013

  Enhanced reading by training with imposed time constraint in typical and dyslexic adults

  Slow and careful reading is encouraged to improve word decoding accuracy. Breznitz and colleagues show that a few weeks of training in accelerated reading can improve reading, for several months, in typical and dyslexic adults.

  • Zvia Breznitz
  • , Shelley Shaul
  •  & Avi Karni