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How reading changes our brains

Our ancestors talked, walked, drew… but didn’t read. No child is born with areas of the brain dedicated to reading. “As we learn to read, the circuits and the wires connecting them that weren’t the primary function change to allow for this new skill.”explains Pr: Laurent Cohen (Brain and Spinal Institute, Paris), author of the book The scent of red and the color of Z (Odile Jacob).

Information leaves the visual system (or tactile networks for those who read Braille) to a sort of “letterbox” located in the left occipitotemporal cortex. When learning to read, this region specializes in letter recognition. Information pathways carry letters to language areas distributed in the left hemisphere; then make the letters accessible to the sounds and meanings of the words. And these ways change as you learn…

Source: Le Figaro

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