Reading, this “neural tinkering”

2023-06-05 11:56:06

According to scientists, man was not born to read. Nothing in his brain predisposed him to decipher the abstract symbols that are the letters to discover their hidden meaning. However, for 5,000 years, the human brain has been able to adapt to the invention of writing at the cost of clever “neural tinkering”. Story(s) of reading: learning.