Neuroimaging study finds extensive brain rewiring–in just six months–among illiterate adults learning to read and write

— Learn­ing to read and write rewires adult brain in six months (New Sci­en­tist): “Learn­ing to read can have pro­found effects on the wiring of the adult brain – even in regions that aren’t usu­al­ly asso­ci­at­ed with read­ing and writ­ing. That’s what Michael Skei­de of the Max Planck Insti­tute for Human Cog­ni­tive and Brain Sciences…

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Literacy Re-wires the Brain

In a  study pub­lished today in Sci­ence, func­tion­al mag­net­ic res­o­nance imag­ing (fMRI) was used to study the brains of 63 adults: 10 were illit­er­ate, 22 learned to read as adults, and 31  learned to read as chil­dren. Brain respons­es to spo­ken and writ­ten lan­guage, visu­al faces, hous­es, tools, and check­ers were exam­ined. The main differences…

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