From retinotopic to ordinal coding: Dissecting the cortical stages of visual word recognition

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Number 43, October 2025.
Importance Fluent reading requires the brain to encode the order of letters in a word, without worrying about where they appear on the retina. The information must be transformed from a retinotopic code into a position-invariant word form. Here we…