Figure 1: Putative letter-form area identified with fMRI and MEG.
From: Sequential then interactive processing of letters and words in the left fusiform gyrus
(a) fMRI: Hemodynamic activation to letter-selective (red) and word-selective (orange) contrasts or both (yellow). (b) MEG: estimated time-courses of activation (F-values) in four regions of interest (ROI) in the left ventral occipito-temporal and orbital cortices. ROIs, centred at the ends of the arrows, were chosen based on fMRI activation. Colours (a) and asterisks (b) mark cluster-corrected differences, t-test, P<0.05; n=12 healthy subjects. MNI coordinates of the maximum activation clusters: letter-form area (−40 −78 −18), word-form area (−46 −52 −20).
