“…Most previous studies focused on word recognition in higher visual and general language areas (reviewed in Wu, Ho, & Chen, 2012;Perfetti, Nelson, Liu, Fiez, & Tan, 2010;Chen, Xue, Mei, Chen, & Dong, 2009;Bolger, Perfetti, & Schneider, 2005;Tan, Laird, Li, & Fox, 2005). Here, we focused primarily on written word recognition at the level of early and intermediate visual cortices.…”