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Key brain region was “recycled” as humans developed ability to read – Mirage News
Part of the visual cortex dedicated to recognizing objects appears predisposed to identifying words and letters, a study finds. …
Part of the visual cortex dedicated to recognizing objects appears predisposed to identifying words and letters, a study finds.
A new study from MIT neuroscientists offers evidence that the brain’s inferotemporal cortex, which is specialized to perform object recognition, has been repurposed for a key component of reading called orthographic processing – the ability to recognize written letters and words.
Image: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT
Humans began to develop systems of reading and writing on…
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