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Good at Reading? Your Brain May Be Structured Differently
Two regions in the left hemisphere of the brain, which are crucial for language, are different in people who are good at reading and are likely to be shaped by the habit.
I analyzed open source data from more than 1,000 participants to discover that readers of varying abilities had distinct traits in brain anatomy. A thinner left Heschl’s gyrus has previously been related to dyslexia, which involves severe reading difficulties. Their increased isolation and rapid communication in the left hemisphere can be thought to enable the fast, categorical processing necessary for language.
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