Brain regions that encode words, grammar, story identified

Saturday, November 29, 2014 - 15:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Scientists have produced the first integrated computational model of reading, identifying which parts of the brain are responsible for such sub-processes as parsing sentences, determining the meaning of words and understanding relationships between characters. They based their results on brain scan of people reading a Harry Potter book.

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