Patterns of brain reorganization subsequent to left fusiform damage: fMRI evidence from visual processing of words and pseudowords, faces and objects

► fMRI can show different patterns of recovery after left fusiform resection. ► Functional reorganization may be different depending on the cognitive process. ► behavioral and neural activation patterns may vary in patients and controls. ► Mahalanobis distance statistics offers a new way to compare neural activations of patients to those of controls.