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Brain Area Specialized for Visual Recognition of Words

By Bbenzon @bbenzon

No child is born able to read. The brain ships with no reading region at all. It builds one, and the construction runs on the exact effort AI removes.
Learning to read physically repurposes a patch of visual cortex. A spot in the left fusiform gyrus starts out tuned to objects… https://t.co/3sOTaLSR2Z

— Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) June 21, 2026

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