Figure 4.

A display of the statistical parametric map, both sagittal and axial views, for the contrast of intelligible written text (writ) with the two unintelligible baseline conditions, rotated speech (rot) and false font (ff). Activity across all five conditions is taken from peak voxels along the length of the left FG, using the same style of display as in Figure 3. At voxel 1, with stereotactic coordinates cited as the location of the visual word form area (Cohen and Dehaene, 2004), there was still a response to false font relative to rotated and intelligible speech, but this was considerably reduced or absent at voxels 2 and 3. The regions marked with asterisks show activity within extraocular muscles, active during the visual conditions.