Researchers show there's more than one way to read - with implications for reading disorders

Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 13:30 in Psychology & Sociology

(Medical Xpress) -- With specificity and precision, the brain's Visual Word Form Area, or VWFA, does exactly what its name implies. Every time we see something that looks like a word, it activates. The VWFA is so adept at packaging visual input for the brain's language centers that the task of word-recognition only takes a few tens of milliseconds.

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