A meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of eye movements and visual word reading.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The pattern of eye movements during reading is substantially correlated with linguistic factors. While there have been a large number of studies on the neural mechanisms of eye movements and word reading separately, a limited number of studies have compared the activation patterns of these two processes and discussed the associations of their corresponding brain regions within the framework of naturalistic reading.

Methods

This study conducted a meta-analysis of the existing functional magnetic resonance imaging literature on prosaccades and visual word reading using the activation likelihood estimation algorithm.

Results

Our main finding was that, although prosaccades and word reading mainly activated dorsal and ventral brain areas, respectively, they bo

SUBMITTER: Zhou W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5434188 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature