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doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.04.004.
Shades of Déjerine--forging a causal link between the visual word form area and reading
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- PMID: 16630825
- DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.04.004
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Shades of Déjerine--forging a causal link between the visual word form area and reading
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Abstract
In 1892, the French neurologist Jules Déjerine suggested that pure alexia resulted from an occipital lesion that selectively disconnected visual input from a region of the brain that housed "optical images of words." In this issue of Neuron, Gaillard and colleagues offer evidence consistent with Déjerine's proposal and provide new insights to the functional role of the "visual word form area."
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Direct intracranial, FMRI, and lesion evidence for the causal role of left inferotemporal cortex in reading.Neuron. 2006 Apr 20;50(2):191-204. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.03.031. Neuron. 2006. PMID: 16630832
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