What Is The VWFA And What Is The Evidence Its Responsive To Experience

Question 1

What did dehaene (2010) do and what is his contribution to this essay

Answer 1

Looked at activation levels in illiterates compared to literates when shown written words
One piece of evidence that VWFA is responsive to experience is it shows weaker activation levels in illiterates

Question 2

What did Dahaene find (2010) and what does this mean

Answer 2

Activation in VWFA increased sharply with literacy levels

Once you start learning to read VWFA starts responding to the knew environmental experience being inputted

Question 3

What did Kim et al (2017) do and how does this contribute

Answer 3

VWFA becomes less selective when not used for analysing words - point
Looked at blind people compared to none blind people’s responses for VWFA

Question 4

What did Kim et al (2017) find

Answer 4

In blind people only, the anotomical location for VWFA responds to both written words and syntax
VWFA adopted higher level linguistic properties as not used for reading written words

Question 5

What did Hervais (2019) do and it’s point

Answer 5

Teaching alters VWFA response - point

Gave people with varying literacy levels reading training and used FMRI to examine VWFA response

Question 6

What did hervais (2019) find and what does this show

Answer 6

Became more sensitive to orthographic stimuli as a function of literacy
Teaching was shown to enhance VWFA response