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  Word contexts enhance the neural representation of individual letters in early visual cortex

Heilbron, M., Richter, D., Ekman, M., Hagoort, P., & De Lange, F. P. (2020). Word contexts enhance the neural representation of individual letters in early visual cortex. Nature Communications, 11: 321. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13996-4.

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Heilbron, Micha1, 2, Author           
Richter, David1, Author
Ekman, Matthias1, Author
Hagoort, Peter2, Author           
De Lange, Floris P.1, Author
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1Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, External Organizations, ou_55236              
2Neurobiology of Language Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_792551              

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 Abstract: Visual context facilitates perception, but how this is neurally implemented remains unclear. One example of contextual facilitation is found in reading, where letters are more easily identified when embedded in a word. Bottom-up models explain this word advantage as a post-perceptual decision bias, while top-down models propose that word contexts enhance perception itself. Here, we arbitrate between these accounts by presenting words and nonwords and probing the representational fidelity of individual letters using functional magnetic resonance imaging. In line with top-down models, we find that word contexts enhance letter representations in early visual cortex. Moreover, we observe increased coupling between letter information in visual cortex and brain activity in key areas of the reading network, suggesting these areas may be the source of the enhancement. Our results provide evidence for top-down representational enhancement in word recognition, demonstrating that word contexts can modulate perceptual processing already at the earliest visual regions.

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 Dates: 2020-01-16
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13996-4
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Title: Nature Communications
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 11 Sequence Number: 321 Start / End Page: - Identifier: ISSN: 2041-1723
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/2041-1723