Results also showed a consistent activation in the left middle frontal gyrus (BA 9) for real and pseudo characters. Its reproducible location across scripts suggests important anatomical constraints, such as specific patterns of connectivity, notably to spoken language areas. Synonyms for VICINITY: center, setting, site, base, scene, venue, whereabouts, location, near, precinct, quarter, township, townships, Principalities. Moreover, individual analysis revealed that the coordinates were consistent with the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) reported for alphabetic scripts. Shortly after reading instruction, a region in the ventral occipital temporal cortex (vOTC) of the left hemisphere, the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), becomes specialized for written words. The results showed that when the three character types were contrasted to one another, there was significantly greater activation in the left middle fusiform gyrus during real and pseudo character processing compared to artificial characters. Implicit processing of four types of stimuli-real characters, pseudo characters, artificial characters, and checkerboard-in two different sizes, were compared in 14 normal participants using functional MRI (fMRI) with a size judgment task.

We investigated this question via implicit processing of Chinese characters. A notable controversy in neurolinguistics is whether there is a particular brain area specialized for visual word recognition within the visual ventral stream. 40 synonyms for vicinity: neighbourhood, area, district, precincts, locality, environs.

Synonym vicinity