Reading is a human invention, made possible by pre-existing brain systems devoted to representing shapes, sound, and speech. Skip to main content Mobile Navigation. Psychology Today.

Reading is a human invention, made possible by pre-existing brain systems devoted to representing shapes, sound, and speech. Skip to main content Mobile Navigation. Psychology Today.

Dr. Stanislas Dehaene, ... In his book, Reading In the Brain, he asserts that whole language “does not fit with the architecture of our visual brain” (2009, p. 195) ...

Reading is a human invention, made possible by pre-existing brain systems devoted to representing shapes, sound, and speech. Skip to main content Mobile Navigation. Psychology Today.

To answer this question, Laurent Cohen at Paris Brain Institute and the Unicog team led by Stanislas Dehaene at NeuroSpin, CEA's neuroimaging center, studied the brains of 31 bilingual people.

Dr. Stanislas Dehaene, a respected neuroscientist, holds the Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collége de France in Paris and directs the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit at ...