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In the brain, one area sees familiar words as pictures, another sounds out words


June 9, 2016

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Skilled readers can quickly recognize words when they read because the word has been placed in a visual dictionary of sorts which functions separately from an area that processes the sounds of written words, say Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists. The visual dictionary idea rebuts a common theory that our brain needs to "sound out" words each time we see them.Full Story

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