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| Developmental mechanism of the visual word form area: from view of neuronal recycling hypothesis |
| GAO Dan1, JIA Shengzhou1, ZHOU Jiaxian2 |
| 1.School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China；2.Department of Educational Psychology, Center for Educational Neuroscience, Faculty of Education, East China Normal University,Shanghai 200062, China |
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Abstract The neuronal recycling hypothesis has proposed that the neural circuits are developed close to the function of new culture invention after it invades into the original cortical area, however, it would not lead to the disappearance of the original function but weak it. The acquisition of culture is limited by the original functions. The visual word form area (VWFA) recycles the form recognition area in the visual cortex for processing visual words, which is located in the fusiform gyrus at the junction of the occipital temporal lobe. Based on the study of Chinese characters and other writing system in recent years, we explore the influence of Chinese reading education on the visual word form area from the perspective of neuronal recycling hypothesis, and gain some implications on Chinese reading education from it.
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