Learning to Read as an Adult Reorganizes Not Just the Outer Brain but Also Deep Brain Layers (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Learning to Read as an Adult Reorganizes Not Just the Outer Brain but Also Deep Brain Layers (2 of 3)

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As we learn to read, neuroplasticity conquers a network that is deeply rooted in the brain. This reorganization makes us increasingly efficient at visually navigating through letter strings, or a group of letters that appear in a word (for example, the "str" in string, straight and strike). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 24, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.A. Skeide at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Learning to read alters cortico-subcortical cross-talk in the visual system of illiterates."

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