Brain’s Reading Center Isn’t Picky About Vision

February 18, 2011 - 1:10am — Bibliofuture

The part of the brain thought to be responsible for processing visual text may not require vision at all, researchers report in the journal Current Biology.

This region, known as the visual word form area, processes words when people with normal vision read, but researchers found that it is also activated when the blind read using Braille.

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