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. 2018 Oct 16;115(42):10542-10544.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1814648115. Epub 2018 Oct 1.

Parcellating the structure and function of the reading circuit

Avniel S Ghuman  1   2   3 , Julie A Fiez  4   3   5
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Parcellating the structure and function of the reading circuit

Avniel S Ghuman et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
View of the ventral brain surface. Lerma-Usabiago et al. (1) found two word-selective regions located along the OTS, which lies between the fusiform (pink) and the inferior temporal (blue) gyri, and abuts the inferior occipital (green) gyrus. A pOTS region (circle) showed functional specialization for the perceptual aspects of visual word recognition, while an mOTS region (square) showed specialization for the lexical aspects.
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