This explains why some people struggle to become confident readers: Language and the “Reading Brain” Learning to read requires the mastery of a collection of complex skills (Mayer, 2008 ) —morphology (formation of words), orthography (spelling), phonetics (mapping words to sounds), syntax (word order), and semantics (extraction of meaning from words and sentences). In fl uent readers, the entire process from visual processing (seeing) to semantic retrieval (understanding) occurs very rapidly, all within about 600 ms (OECD, 2007 ) . Brain imaging research in cognitive neuroscience has made signi fi cant strides to advance our understanding of the “reading brain” (Dehaene, 2009 ) . Though certain brain structures are biologically primed for language (e.g., Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area, 44–45 and 22, respectively, in Fig. 5.3 ), language acquisition requires the catalyst of experience. There
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