{"id":662984,"date":"2020-08-04T13:47:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662984"},"modified":"2020-08-04T13:47:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:47:34","slug":"key-brain-region-was-recycled-as-humans-developed-the-ability-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662984","title":{"rendered":"Key brain region was &#039;recycled&#039; as humans developed the ability to read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study offers evidence that the brain&#8217;s inferotemporal cortex, which is specialized to perform object recognition, has been repurposed for a key component of reading called orthographic processing &#8212; the ability to recognize written letters and words.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2020\/08\/200804134734.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Key brain region was &#8216;recycled&#8217; as humans developed the ability to read<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study offers evidence that the brain&#8217;s inferotemporal cortex, which is specialized to perform object recognition, has been repurposed for a key component of reading called orthographic processing &#8212;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}