One Area of Brain Sees Familiar Words as Pictures, Another Sounds Out Words
Originally shared by Neuroscience News
One Area of Brain Sees Familiar Words as Pictures, Another Sounds Out Words
Skilled readers can quickly recognize words when they read because the word has been placed in a visual dictionary of sorts which functions separately from an area that processes the sounds of written words, say Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) neuroscientists. The visual dictionary idea rebuts a common theory that our brain needs to “sound out” words each time we see them.
The research is in Neuroimage. (full access paywall)
#dyslexia #neuroscience
http://neurosciencenews.com/words-pictures-sounds-4419
One Area of Brain Sees Familiar Words as Pictures, Another Sounds Out Words
Skilled readers can quickly recognize words when they read because the word has been placed in a visual dictionary of sorts which functions separately from an area that processes the sounds of written words, say Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) neuroscientists. The visual dictionary idea rebuts a common theory that our brain needs to “sound out” words each time we see them.
The research is in Neuroimage. (full access paywall)
#dyslexia #neuroscience
http://neurosciencenews.com/words-pictures-sounds-4419
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