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Thursday, July 21, 2016

Brain words representation

How Words Are Represented in the Brain

Source: University of Pittsburgh.
Image shows a brain with the fusiform gyrus highlighted.
Using direct neural recordings from the visual word form area, researchers were able to see words that patients read as the patients read them.
Reading is a relatively modern and uniquely human skill. For this reason, visual word recognition has been a puzzle for neuroscientists because the neural systems responsible for reading could not have evolved for this purpose. “The existence of brain regions dedicated to reading has been fiercely debated for almost 200 years,” said Avniel Ghuman, an assistant professor in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery. “Wernicke, Dejerine, and Charcot, among the most important and influential neurologists and neuroscientists of the 19th century, debated whether or not there was a visual center for words in the brain.”/.../

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