title: [The reading brain].
abstract: Reading is at the core of most current cultural achievements, including literature and science. Cognitive neurosciences now allow us to understand how this crucial cultural construct, its operation, development and breakdown, is rooted in the biological constraints of brain function.
authors.affiliation: Service de neurologie 1, hôpital de la Salpêtrière, pavillon Paul-Castaigne, 47, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France. laurent.cohen@psl.ap-hop-paris.fr
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology; D011932:Reading; D014956:Writing