TY - JOUR
T1 - Turning visual shapes into sounds
T2 - Early stages of reading acquisition revealed in the ventral occipitotemporal cortex
AU - Perrone-Bertolotti, M.
AU - Vidal, J. R.
AU - de Palma, L.
AU - Hamamé, C. M.
AU - Ossandon, T.
AU - Kahane, P.
AU - Minotti, L.
AU - Bertrand, O.
AU - Lachaux, J. P.
PY - 2014/4/15
Y1 - 2014/4/15
N2 - The exact role of the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex (VOTC) during the initial stages of reading acquisition is a hotly debated issue, especially regarding the comparative effect of learning on early stimulus-dependent vs. later task-dependent processes. We show that this controversy can be solved with high-temporal resolution intracerebral EEG recordings of the VOTC. We measured High-Frequency Activity (50-150. Hz) as a proxy of population-level spiking activity while participants learned Japanese Katakana symbols, and found that learning primarily affects top-down/task-dependent neural processing, after a few minutes only. In contrast, adaptation of early bottom-up/stimulus-dependent processing takes several days to adapt and provides the basis for fluent reading. Such evidence that two consecutive stages of neural processing, stimulus- and task-dependent are differentially affected by learning, can reconcile seemingly opposite hypotheses on the role of the VOTC during reading acquisition.
AB - The exact role of the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex (VOTC) during the initial stages of reading acquisition is a hotly debated issue, especially regarding the comparative effect of learning on early stimulus-dependent vs. later task-dependent processes. We show that this controversy can be solved with high-temporal resolution intracerebral EEG recordings of the VOTC. We measured High-Frequency Activity (50-150. Hz) as a proxy of population-level spiking activity while participants learned Japanese Katakana symbols, and found that learning primarily affects top-down/task-dependent neural processing, after a few minutes only. In contrast, adaptation of early bottom-up/stimulus-dependent processing takes several days to adapt and provides the basis for fluent reading. Such evidence that two consecutive stages of neural processing, stimulus- and task-dependent are differentially affected by learning, can reconcile seemingly opposite hypotheses on the role of the VOTC during reading acquisition.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.027
DO - 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.027
M3 - Article
C2 - 24370818
AN - SCOPUS:84893550484
VL - 90
SP - 298
EP - 307
JO - NeuroImage
JF - NeuroImage
SN - 1053-8119
ER -