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A Ventral Visual Stream Reading Center Independent of Visual Experience
Current Biology 22, 350–352, Februrary 21, 2012 ª2012 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved
Errata A Ventral Visual Stream Reading Center Independent of Visual Experience Lior Reich, Marcin Szwed, Laurent Cohen, and Amir Amedi* (Current Biology 21, 363–368; March 8, 2011) One of the most important aspects of the findings in this paper is the lateralization of the activation to the left hemisphere. In the slice view in the originally published figures, this was indeed how we presented the data. However, in the inflated brain view in the figures (middle of Figure 1B and middle of Figure 2A), the presentation was reversed: the data were mistakenly horizontally flipped, i.e., the hemisphere on the left side (with the left-lateralized VWFA activation on it) appeared as the right one. This reflects a visualization mistake only, which resulted from the fact that the anatomical and functional data were both in a neurological convention, whereas the default for the inflated brain was radiological. Please note that, as clearly seen in all other parts of the figures, the activation of Braille reading in the congenitally blind is indeed left lateralized, identically to the sighteds’ VWFA. The revised Figures 1 and 2 shown here correct this visualization error. (It should be emphasized that the actual data presented in the figures are not different to any extent; this was only a visualization issue.) The authors apologize for any confusion this may have caused.
Figure 1. Visual Word Form Area Is the Peak of Braille Words Reading Activation across the Entire Brain of the Congenitally Blind
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Figure 2. VWFA Is Reading Selective and Shows Astonishing Anatomical Consistency within the Blind Group, and Also between Blind and Sighted Individuals
*Correspondence: [email protected]
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.02.001
Errata A Ventral Visual Stream Reading Center Independent of Visual Experience Lior Reich, Marcin Szwed, Laurent Cohen, and Amir Amedi* (Current Biology 21, 363–368; March 8, 2011) One of the most important aspects of the findings in this paper is the lateralization of the activation to the left hemisphere. In the slice view in the originally published figures, this was indeed how we presented the data. However, in the inflated brain view in the figures (middle of Figure 1B and middle of Figure 2A), the presentation was reversed: the data were mistakenly horizontally flipped, i.e., the hemisphere on the left side (with the left-lateralized VWFA activation on it) appeared as the right one. This reflects a visualization mistake only, which resulted from the fact that the anatomical and functional data were both in a neurological convention, whereas the default for the inflated brain was radiological. Please note that, as clearly seen in all other parts of the figures, the activation of Braille reading in the congenitally blind is indeed left lateralized, identically to the sighteds’ VWFA. The revised Figures 1 and 2 shown here correct this visualization error. (It should be emphasized that the actual data presented in the figures are not different to any extent; this was only a visualization issue.) The authors apologize for any confusion this may have caused.
Figure 1. Visual Word Form Area Is the Peak of Braille Words Reading Activation across the Entire Brain of the Congenitally Blind
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Figure 2. VWFA Is Reading Selective and Shows Astonishing Anatomical Consistency within the Blind Group, and Also between Blind and Sighted Individuals
*Correspondence: [email protected]
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.02.001