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Good at Reading? Your Brain May Be Structured Differently

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Fifty percent of UK adults say they don’t read regularly and almost one in four young people aged 16 to 24 say they’ve never been readers, according to research by The Reading Agency. The structure of two regions in the left hemisphere, which are crucial for language, were different in people who were good at reading. Better reading ability was linked to a larger anterior part of the temporal lobe in the left hemisphere compared to the right. A thinner left Heschl’s gyrus has previously been related to dyslexia, which involves severe reading difficulties.

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