Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dissociating Reading Processes on the Basis of Neuronal Interactions
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Emerging Neurophysiological Specialization for Letter Strings
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
ERP Nonword Rhyming Effects in Children and Adults
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Reading in a Regular Orthography: An fMRI Study Investigating the Role of Visual Familiarity
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
From Orthography to Phonetics: ERP Measures of Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Mechanisms in Reading
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuroimaging Studies of Word and Pseudoword Reading: Consistencies, Inconsistencies, and Limitations
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Neural Specialization for Letter Recognition
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
fMRI Evidence for Dual Routes to the Mental Lexicon in Visual Word Recognition
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Cerebral Asymmetry in the Fusiform Areas Predicted the Efficiency of Learning a New Writing System
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Brain activation studies of orthographic stimuli typically start with the premise that different types of orthographic strings (e.g., words, pseudowords) differ from each other in discrete ways, which should be reflected in separate and distinct areas of brain activation. The present study starts from a different premise: Words, pseudowords, letterstrings, and false fonts vary systematically across a continuous dimension of familiarity to English readers. Using a one-back matching task to force encoding of the stimuli, the four types of stimuli were visually presented to healthy adult subjects while fMRI activations were obtained. Data analysis focused on parametric comparisons of fMRI activation sites. We did not find any region that was exclusively activated for real words. Rather, differences among these string types were mainly expressed as graded changes in the balance of activations among the regions. Our results suggest that there is a widespread network of brain regions that form a common network for the processing of all orthographic string types.