A bold new theory of dyslexia, with Prof Usha Goswami
Instant Genius
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How Dyslexia Processes Language
When you're reading, it's speech written down. So absolutely everybody is automatically using their speech recognition system - even though they're not aware of that. Some people will implicitly think that they can memorize whole pages of text without going through sound but actually your brain always goes through sound. And according to my research, it's because that rhythm, that hidden structural blue that holds the entire signal together, and that the brain then uses with brainwaves to represent that signal is functioning slightly out of time.
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