Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain

Guosheng Ding; Hehui Li; Xiaoxia Feng

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2023.05.003

Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain

Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 Jul;27(7):603-604. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.05.003. Epub 2023 May 16.

Authors

Guosheng Ding¹, Hehui Li², Xiaoxia Feng³

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China. Electronic address: dinggsh@bnu.edu.cn.
² Center for Brain Disorders and Cognitive Sciences, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China.
³ State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China.

PMID: 37198088
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.05.003

Abstract

Utilizing a millimeter-scale fMRI technique and individual-based analysis, Zhan and colleagues drew a new cortical map of the visual word form area (VWFA) and examined how it processes diverse languages among different bilinguals. This research advances the current understanding of cortical language organization in the bilingual brain.

Keywords: VWFA; bilingualism; functional gradient; high-resolution; individual-based analysis; script-specific.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Brain / diagnostic imaging
Brain Mapping*
Humans
Language
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Multilingualism*
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