Fig. 2.

Use of the term “visual word form area” in publications. Relative number of publications mentioning the terms “visual word form area”, from 1990 to 2020 are shown in solid black. As a comparison, the number of publications including the term “fusiform face area” are shown in yellow, and “inferior temporal cortex” in blue. To account for the overall increase of publications, the number of publications was normalized to the total number of publications mentioning the term “visual cortex”. While topics like inferior temporal cortex show a relatively stable number of publications over the last 30 years, the terms “visual word form area” and “fusiform face area” first appeared in 1998 and the ratio of publications using these terms has increased since the early 2000s. Source: pubmed.gov