Reading may be fundamental, but how the brain gives meaning to letters on a page has been fundamentally a mystery. Two new studies fill in some details on how the brains of proficient readers handle words.
One of the studies, published in the April 30 Neuron, suggests that a visual-processing area of the brain recognizes common words as whole units.
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