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People who are good at reading have different brains: study

Reading can change the brain.

I analysed 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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