Eric Moulton|Florence Bouhali|Karla Monzalvo|Cyril Poupon|Hui Zhang|Stanislas Dehaene|Ghislaine Dehaene?Lambertz|Jessica Dubois
Connectivity between the visual word form area and the parietal lobe improves after the first year of reading instruction: a longitudinal MRI study in children
Institut du Cerveau|Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab|Allen Institute for Brain Science|Allen Institute for Brain Science|Institut du Cerveau|Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab|Imagerie par Résonance Magnétique Médicale et Multi-Modalités|Collège de France|Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab|Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab|Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission
shortly reading instruction region ventral occipital temporal cortex votc left hemisphere visual word form area vwfa becomes specialized written words reproducible location across scripts suggests important anatomical constraints specific patterns connectivity notably spoken language areas explored structural connectivity emerging vwfa terms specificity relative ventral visual regions stability throughout process reading instruction ten children studied longitudinally 2 years categoryspecific regions words houses faces tools identified left votc subject functional mri diffusion mri tractography reconstructed connections regions two time points mean age standard deviation 62 03 72 04 years first showed regions visual category harbor specific connectivity precede reading instruction remain stable throughout development specific connections vwfa dorsal posterior parietal cortex showed microstructural changes connections correlated improvements reading scores first year instruction 1 year later subsample eight children age 84 03 years results suggest vwfa location depends connectivity distant regions particular left inferior parietal region may play crucial role visual field maps eye movement dynamics addition attentional control letterbyletter reading disambiguation mirrorletters first stages learning read