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Reading a face

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Apparently we recognize words like we recognize faces. For me I would wish that I could remember names with faces like I can remember words but I digress.

The visual dictionary (officially known as the ‘visual word form area’) lies on the left side of the brain in the fusiform gyrus: the side normally involved in processing language. Interestingly, the fusiform gyrus on the right side of the brain is important in recognising faces.

The use of this area for words is probably not a coincidence. “There’s a ‘neuronal recycling hypothesis’ which says that word recognition falls in this area because you need to make fine discriminations between words – which is similar to what you do with faces – but you also need the linguistic left side of the brain,” says Dr Laurie S. Glezer, who led the study.

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Middle schoolers develop a dyslexia app

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A group of Plano middle schoolers wants to help those with the reading disability by developing a mobile app that will allow users to customize text to their specific needs.

 

“Dyslexia is a really big problem in the world,” said David Yue, 13. “It doesn’t mean that someone is not smart. They just have a disability or a neurological misfiring that doesn’t allow them to read as well as other people. We wanted to give every dyslexic a chance to be able to excel in school and all the activities they do.”

 

Yue and fellow eighth-graders from Rice Middle School developed the concept for an app called Mind Glass as part of a Verizon Innovative App Challenge. The team was one of eight national winners, earning $20,000 for the school and the opportunity to work one-on-one with professionals from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build the app.

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The Brain can correct for Dyslexia

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Individuals with five neurodevelopmental disorders — autism spectrum disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome, dyslexia, and specific language impairment (SLI) — appear to compensate for dysfunction by relying on a single powerful and nimble system in the brain known as declarative memory.

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