Key brain region was 'recycled' as humans developed the ability to read

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Aug 4, 2020, 1:47 pm126 pts
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.

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