Reading in the Brain Jakob Heinzle (Berlin) and Kevan Martin and K.H. (Zürich)
Outline Tutorial on the functional neuroanatomy of vision and eye-movements. Microcircuit model of the frontal eye fields. Biologically realistic cortical model of eye movement control in reading. Work in progress.
Cortex (man, left hemisphere)
Cortex (macaque, left hemisphere)
Visual areas in the macaque cortex
Neurons in the feline primary visual cortex V1
Microcircuit in V1
Eye muscles and motoneuron
Descending pathways for saccades
Reading enlarges the language representation in the cortex
Eye movements during reading
FEF model for saccades
Complete network architecture
Interactions: B excitatory, A inhibitory
MathBox
Network activity for a visual saccade
More complex saccade tasks are successfully implemented
FEF model naturally incorporates reading
FEF model during reading
Implementation of the reading rule
Normal reading and word skipping
Reading statistics
Error statistics
? ?? ??? Many unsolved problems: Language, consiousness Simplification in the world of text processing: Reading imbedded in sensorimotor actions Question: what happens in the brain behind the eyeduring reading ?
Copy-Paste between a Pdf-file and a Powerpoint slide: Instructions 1.Click on the Adobe buttom. Go to the page containing Figure 1. Enlarge the image, by clicking on the arrow on the right of the white window and selecting 100%. Center the image. 2.Click on Werkzeuge on the second Adobe control bar. Move to Auswählen und Zoomen and follow the arrow into the context window down to Schnappschuss-Werkzeug. 3.Move the cross of the pointer to the left upper corner of Figure 1. Press the left mouse buttom, move it to the right lower corner and let go. 4.Change to Powerpoint,by clicking on its control buttom. Point into the slide and type Ctrl+V. Click into Figure 1 and center it in the content field. Type Architecture of the FEF model in the title field. 5.Click on Neue Folie. Move to Adobe Click on the Single Page button on the upper control bar and go to the page containing Figure 2. Repeat the same steps, without having to change again into the Schnappschuss- Werkzeug.
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Pointers J Heinzle, K Hepp, K Martin A microcircuit model of the frontal eye fields. J Neuroscience 27:9341 (2007). J Heinzle, K Hepp, K Martin A biologically realistic cortical model of eye movement control in reading. Psychological Review 117:808 (2010). Folien: