{"id":1778,"date":"2010-11-17T17:33:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T22:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:37","slug":"learning-to-read-competes-with-face-recognition-ability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/17\/learning-to-read-competes-with-face-recognition-ability\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to read competes with face recognition ability&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1779\" href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/17\/learning-to-read-competes-with-face-recognition-ability\/face\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1779\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/face-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/face-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/face-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/face.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A\u00c2\u00a0 <em>New Scientist<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn19720-bad-memory-for-faces-blame-your-reading-skills.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&amp;nsref=online-news\">article<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>suggests that the human ability to read actually cannibalizes parts of  the brain used for other visual skills, such as tracking animals\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and  recognizing faces. Neurologists have long been faced with the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153reading  paradox\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of how our brain contains such a specific area for reading  while reading itself has only existed for 5000 years\u00e2\u20ac\u201cfar too short a  time for the reading area of the brain to be an adaptive trait.<\/p>\n<p>[Our] visual plasticity may have allowed for humans to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153recycle\u00e2\u20ac\u009d visual  portions of the brain for reading, but not, his new study suggests,  without a cost&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That cost is our ability to recognize faces.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, who said that?<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/mobylives\/?p=20149\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00c2\u00a0 New Scientist article suggests that the human ability to read actually cannibalizes parts of the brain used for other visual skills, such as tracking animals\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and recognizing faces. Neurologists have long been faced with the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153reading paradox\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of how our brain contains such a specific area for reading while reading itself has only existed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/17\/learning-to-read-competes-with-face-recognition-ability\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Learning to read competes with face recognition ability&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,1],"tags":[237,238,241,240,50,239],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","category-information","tag-face","tag-facialrecognition","tag-mobylives","tag-newscientist","tag-read","tag-readingability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10209,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/10209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}