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.
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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