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Humans are born with a part of the brain that is prewired to be receptive to seeing words and letters, setting the stage at birth for people to learn how to read, a new study suggests. Analyzing brain scans of newborns, researchers found that this part of the brain—called the ‘visual word form area’ (VWFA) […]
When Sue Holmes talks about what day it is, she doesn’t just hear it like most people. A rare condition called synaesthesia means she sees words as graphic pictures. It also means that she has an incredible autobiographical memory which allows her to remember every day with very accurate detail. Sue, 63, of Eastbourne, East […]
Patients in a new Northwestern Medicine study were able to comprehend words that were written but not said aloud. They could write the names of things they saw but not verbalize them. Even though these patients could hear and speak perfectly fine, a disease had crept into a portion of their brain that kept them […]