The posterior occipitotemporal sulcus (pOTS) is involved in extracting visual features, responding more strongly as the participants viewed images of real words compared with checkerboards or ...

If you played Pokémon video games extensively as a kid, there's a good chance that a specific region of your brain gets fired up when you see the characters now. In a recent study, researchers ...

For the Pokémon experts, it turned out that the occipitotemporal sulcus, a part of the brain’s temporal and occipital lobes known for processing animal images, responded more to the Pokémen ...

The occipitotemporal sulcus is typically the region of the brain dedicated to identifying types of animals, but playing Pokemon extensively as children seems to have caused the brain to develop ...

A study at Stanford University has shown that those who sunk hours into the RPG series as children see a portion of their brain called the occipitotemporal sulcus fire up when presented with ...

One possible candidate is the visual word form area (VWFA), in the occipitotemporal sulcus region of the brain. If so, the evidence of cerebral versatility is reassuring news for people with ...

What’s even more astounding, though, is that a specific brain fold responded in all the fans—an area behind the ears called the occipitotemporal sulcus.

Baboons can recognise scores of written words, a feat that raises intriguing questions about how we learn to read, scientists reported on Thursday. In a specially-made facility in France where they… ...

The researchers are careful to note that the results shouldn’t be interpreted as a literal “Pokemon functional module” in the occipitotemporal sulcus of Pokemon players; rather, the data ...

The Stanford-led team found that in lifelong Pokémon players, a specific area of the VTC (called the occipitotemporal sulcus or OTS) consistently lit up when they viewed Pokémon characters.

The Stanford University neuroscientists recruited 11 self-proclaimed Pokémon masters and 11 Pokémon-naïve participants and monitored part of the brain called the occipitotemporal sulcus.

The images showed a striking contrast between the Pokémon experts and the novices. The brains of those Pokémon aficionados universally lit up in a specific subregion, the occipitotemporal sulcus, or ...