File:Brain pathways for mirror discrimination learning during literacy acquisition.jpg
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| Title | File:Brain pathways for mirror discrimination learning during literacy acquisition.jpg |
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| Commons page id | 44059451 |
| Category | Alphabets |
| Description on Commons | Brain pathways for mirror discrimination learning during literacy acquisition. Upper: The Visual Word Form Area [VWFA] (in red) presents mirror invariance before alphabetization and mirror discrimination for letters after alphabetization. A key aspect of alphabetization is to set in place the audio-visual mapping known as “phoneme-grapheme correspondence,” whereby elementary sounds of language (i.e., phonemes) are linked to visual representations of them (i.e., graphemes) (Frith, 1986). Lower: During alphabetization, the VWFA can receive top-down inputs with discriminative information from phonological, gestural (handwriting) and speech production areas and bottom-up inputs from lower level visual areas. All these inputs can help the VWFA to discriminate between mirror representations, thus correctly identifying letters to enable a fluent reading. |
| Creator credit (Artist) | Pegado F, Nakamura K and Hannagan T |
| Credit line | Pegado F, Nakamura K and Hannagan T (2014) How does literacy break mirror invariance in the visual system? Front. Psychol. 5:703. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00703 http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00703/full |
| Date on Commons | Published online: 10 July 2014 |
| Licence (LicenseShortName) | CC BY 3.0 — see the licence page |
| Usage terms | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 |
| Licence URL | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 |
| Width (pixels) | 869 |
| Height (pixels) | 677 |
| File size (bytes) | 323,877 |
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| Commons file page | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brain_pathways_for_mirror_discrimination_learning_during_literacy_acquisition.jpg |
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