The origins of literacy: The Da Vinci code.
Research conducted by cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene has found that learning to read may lead to profound changes in the brain's visual system. Dehaene's studies suggest that a small area of the brain that he calls the visual word form area (VWFA) is particularly activated by the writte...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 396; pp. 77 - 79 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
July 10 2010
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