Topic: fusiform gyrus

Learning a word, involves mapping low-level perceptual representations of world-referents to high-level semantic representations. It is widely held that conscious access to the visual world-referents is needed to learn the meaning of words. The aim of this study was to use fMRI-based decoded neurofeedback (DecNef) to incept a perceptual meaning into brain representations of meaningless symbols, and do so without participant’s awareness, hence by-passing the explicit mapping between words and perceptual referents in brain regions involved in semantic representation. Accordingly, we developed

The fusiform gyrus (FG) in the human brain is essential for higher cortical functions such as recognizing faces and human bodies [1, 2]. Though, the relationship of its structural and functional decompositions in the anterior portion is yet to be better understood [3]. Here, the anterior FG was investigated in ten postmortem brains (five female, five male, including the BigBrain [4]). Using a reproducible, histologically based and software-supported approach, digitized coronal histological brain sections were analyzed [5-7]. A "Grey Level Index" method was used to determine cytoarchitectonic b