Reading for Pleasure

The skill of reading only developed about 5500 years ago. Scientists tell us that's not enough time for evolution to reshape the brain. Yet the brain has a region exclusively dedicated to this human skill. A 2016 study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that this brain region has connections to other parts of the brain that are in place, even before a child learns to read. That area has pre existing connections to regions associated with language processing. The evidence of this study, which scan children at 5 years, who were pre reading, they won't read us. And then at 8 years when they were readers, suggests that these connections exist before reading is learned. Make what you will have that