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1: The Science of Growing Smarter

The Psychology Podcast

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Are We Not Wired to Read?

I know that you've arguned recently that there's a lot, it's a lot more maluable and culturally based deslexia. But for dislectics, reading is so difficult that they do less of it, and so their brains change less. We're also seeing the result of maybe many years of getting less practice at and thus less change of the brain. There are fascinating experiments looking at columbian gorillas who literally grew up fighting and never, so never learned to read, but then became literate as adults.

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