Wig Wig A wig is a head covering made from human hair, animal hair, or synthetic fiber. The word wig is short for periwig., which makes its earliest known appearance in the English language in William Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona". Julia, disguised as the boy Sebastian, says "I'll get me such a coloured periwig." [II,2.81] Some people wear wigs to disguise baldness; a wig may be used as a less intrusive and less expensive alternative to medical therapies for restoring hair or for a religious reason. In Egyptian society men and women commonly had clean shaven or close cropped
Visual word form area Visual word form area The visual word form area (VWFA) is a functional region of the left fusiform gyrus and surrounding cortex (right-hand side being part of the fusiform face area) that is hypothesized to be involved in identifying words and letters from lower-level shape images, prior to association with phonology or semantics. Because the alphabet is relatively new in human evolution, it is unlikely that this region developed as a result of selection pressures related to word recognition per se; however, this region may be highly specialized for certain types of shapes that occur naturally in the environment and