Learning to read and write rewires brain

• Autores: Anil Ananthaswamy
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3128, 2017, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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 in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues have found by teaching illiterate adults in rural India to read and write. By the end of the study, the team saw an increase in brain activity in the cortex--the outermost layer of the brain, which is involved in learning--in the brains of those who had learned to read and write. The thalamus and brainstem--brain regions that aren't typically involved in reading, writing or learning--also seemed more active after training