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We May Have ‘Recycled’ a Key Region of Our Brains as Humans Learned to Read – ScienceAlert
Despite the long evolutionary history of our species, humans have only been reading and writing for a few thousand years. New research shows that we may have ‘recycled’ a key region of the brain to help us start making sense of the written word.
Despite the long evolutionary history of our species, humans have only been reading and writing for a few thousand years. New research shows that we may have ‘recycled’ a key region of the brain to help us start making sense of the written word.
In tests on rhesus macaque monkeys, scientists have demonstrated that a region called the inferior temporal (IT) cortex in the primate’s brain is capable of providing the essential information we need to turn strings of letters into something more meani…
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