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.

We see not just with our eyes, but with our brains. A mosaic of specialized areas in a brain region known as the visual cortex interprets different sights, helping us identify everything from solid ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking new study has identified how different brain regions are responsible for visualizing and sounding out words when you’re reading. People who read words using the visual brain region ...

A neuroimaging study by a UB psychologist suggests that phonics, a method of learning to read using knowledge of word sounds, shouldn’t be overlooked in favor of a whole-language technique that ...

Reading is a recent invention in the history of human culture--too recent for dedicated brain networks to have evolved specifically for it. How, then, do we accomplish this remarkable feat? As we ...

Children can keep full visual perception -- the ability to process and understand visual information -- after brain surgery for severe epilepsy, according to a new study. A study of children who had ...

Understanding reading When we read, our brains are instantly able to recognise words because we have stored them in a 'visual dictionary', say researchers. Their findings, which are likely to be hotly ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking new study has identified how different brain regions are responsible for visualizing and sounding out words when you’re reading. People who read words using the visual brain region ...