Monday, April 27, 2009

Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading


Filed under: Orthography

Most people are expert readers, but it is something of an enigma that our brain can achieve expertise in such a recent cultural invention, which lies at the interface between vision and language. Given that the first alphabetic scripts are thought to have been invented only around four to five thousand years it is unlikely that enough time has elapsed to allow the evolution of specialized parts of the brain for reading. While neuroimaging techniques have made some progress in understanding the neural underpinning of this essentially cultural skill, the exact unfolding of brain activity has remained elusive. Now, a better understanding of the brain basis of reading has been reported in research published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE.

Full article: EurekAlert


See also:

>  New model of brain sheds light on causes of autism
>  Dartmouth researchers find a neural signature of bilingualism
>  Do bilingual persons have distinct language areas in the brain?
>  Study Sheds New Light On The Nature Of Broca’s Area In The Brain
>  Brain images show individual dyslexic children respond to spelling treatment

No Comments (Add a comment)

del.icio.us:Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading digg:Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading spurl:Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading wists:Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading simpy:Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading newsvine:Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading blinklist:Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading furl:Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading reddit:Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading fark:Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading blogmarks:Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading Y!:Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading smarking:Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading magnolia:Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading segnalo:Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading



No Comments so far
Leave a comment

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI


Leave a comment

(required)

(required but not made public)