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SUBMITTER: Brem S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2867899 | biostudies-other | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Brem Silvia S Bach Silvia S Kucian Karin K Guttorm Tomi K TK Martin Ernst E Lyytinen Heikki H Brandeis Daniel D Richardson Ulla U
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100415 17
The acquisition of reading skills is a major landmark process in a human's cognitive development. On the neural level, a new functional network develops during this time, as children typically learn to associate the well-known sounds of their spoken language with unfamiliar characters in alphabetic languages and finally access the meaning of written words, allowing for later reading. A critical component of the mature reading network located in the left occipito-temporal cortex, termed the "visu ...[more]