Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

The visual word form area (VWFA) is part of both language and attention circuitry

  • Lang Chen,
  • Demian Wassermann,
  • Daniel A. Abrams,
  • John Kochalka,
  • Guillermo Gallardo-Diez,
  • Vinod Menon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13634-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

Read online

The visual word form area (VWFA) is a brain region associated with written language, but it has also been linked to visuospatial attention. Here, the authors reveal distinct structural and functional circuits linking VWFA with language and attention networks, and demonstrate that these circuits separately predict language and attention abilities.