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Key brain region was ‘recycled’ as humans developed the ability to read
August 4, 2020 by NewsBot
A new study offers evidence that the brain's inferotemporal cortex, which is specialized to perform object recognition, has been repurposed for a key component of reading called orthographic processing -- the ability to recognize written letters and words.
