HOW DOES READING

AFFECTS THE BRAIN

Reading affects the brain in such way that we experience all the events that the

character from the book experienced in the story.

Using fMRI researches could identify the parts thar were in activity during the

reading. Reading can affect the brain for days after you finish the book.

fMRI

So what parts of the brain are used during the reading?

We use the temporal lobe, located beneath the lateral fissure on both cerebral

cortex, is responsible for phonological awareness and decoding sounds.

The frontal lobe, that is located at the front of each cerebral hemisphere and

positioned anterior to (in front of) the parietal lobe and superior and anterior to

the temporal lobes, handles speech production, reading fluency, gramatical

usage, and comprehension, making it possible to understand simple and

complex grammar in our native language.

And we use also the angular and the supramarginal gyrus, the angular gyrus is a

region of the brain in the parietal lobe, that lies near the superior edge of the

temporal lobe, and immediately posterior to the supramarginal gyrus and the

supramarginal gyrus is located just dorsal to the angular gyrus allowing these two

structures to form a multimodal complex that receives somatosensory, visual, and

auditory inputs from the brain, these parts serve as a "reading integrator" a

conductor of sorts, linking the different parts of the brain together to execute the

action of reading.

This course allowed me to identify all the parts of the brain, the

divisions, the nerves, the distribution of blood, every part of the brain,

in a way I could not before. No doubt I learned a lot during and even

after the end during the development of the final project. Thank you!