Write to read: the brain's universal reading and writing network.
Do differences in writing systems translate into differences in the brain's reading network? Or is this network universal, relatively impervious to variation in writing systems? A new study adds intriguing evidence to these questions by showing that reading handwritten words activates a pre-motor area across writing systems.
Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA. perfetti@pitt.edu
Charles A
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Perfetti
Li-Hai
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Tan
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