Reading in the brain by ALAN RODOLFO ESCOBAR GRIJALVA https://padlet.com/aescobarg12/cggooem978qubaw0 en-us 2023-03-26 03:41:57 UTC 2023-03-26 04:08:15 UTC hello@padlet.com How does reading work in our brains? aescobarg12 https://padlet.com/aescobarg12/cggooem978qubaw0/wish/2531576142 Reading has been a strange topic for linguists as it seems to be less natural than other aspects of language.]]> 2023-03-26 03:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/aescobarg12/cggooem978qubaw0/wish/2531576142 How is reading strange? aescobarg12 https://padlet.com/aescobarg12/cggooem978qubaw0/wish/2531577158 1. There are many languages in the world that are not written or read.
2. There are no languages that people can read and write but not speak.
3. Reading and writing is learnt differently from other aspects of language.]]> 2023-03-26 03:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/aescobarg12/cggooem978qubaw0/wish/2531577158 aescobarg12 https://padlet.com/aescobarg12/cggooem978qubaw0/wish/2531577907 Additionally, there are many types of writing systems, with different approaches, different symbols and different ways of writing.

Regardless of all these differences, our brains seem to store the information about writing in the same part of the brain.]]> 2023-03-26 03:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/aescobarg12/cggooem978qubaw0/wish/2531577907 Where does the brain store reading and writing? aescobarg12 https://padlet.com/aescobarg12/cggooem978qubaw0/wish/2531578488 Typically, the answer would be because it is innate. However, considering that humans have been reading and writing for merely about five thousand years, it is too short of a time for a "reading and writing" organ to evolve in us.]]> 2023-03-26 03:54:43 UTC https://padlet.com/aescobarg12/cggooem978qubaw0/wish/2531578488 aescobarg12 https://padlet.com/aescobarg12/cggooem978qubaw0/wish/2531580707 The answer seems to lie in the symbols developed for reading and writing.]]> 2023-03-26 04:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aescobarg12/cggooem978qubaw0/wish/2531580707 aescobarg12 https://padlet.com/aescobarg12/cggooem978qubaw0/wish/2531581620 In many writing systems we will find similarities between the symbols used to represent certain sounds. This seems to be because written language is stored in the area of the brain in charge of three dimensional vision.]]> 2023-03-26 04:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/aescobarg12/cggooem978qubaw0/wish/2531581620 Why is it stored there? aescobarg12 https://padlet.com/aescobarg12/cggooem978qubaw0/wish/2531582189 The most accepted explanation of this is that this is very closed to the part of our brain where we store and process sounds. Since we've converged that writing and sounds are closely related, writing is stored as close as possible from sounds, which is the 3D area fo the brain.]]> 2023-03-26 04:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/aescobarg12/cggooem978qubaw0/wish/2531582189