The amazing flexibility of the human mind
(WorldNews Health)

Even learning to read in your thirties profoundly transforms brain networks May 24, 2017 Reading is such a modern cultural invention that, so far, there is no specific area in the human brain dedicated to it. An international team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have found that learning to read as an adult reconfigures brain areas hitherto assigned to different skills. Most strikingly, evolutionarily ancient structures located deep inside the brain - are more fundamentally changed than previously assumed. These findings were obtained in a large-scale...