{"id":3608,"date":"2024-06-07T11:39:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningally.org\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2024-06-07T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:42:01","slug":"brain-based-learning-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningally.org\/resource\/brain-based-learning-impacts","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Science of Reading Begins with a Clear Picture of How the Brain Learns to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stanislas Dehaene<\/a>, Psychologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist, Ph.D. was a keynote presenter at Learning Ally\u2019s 2023 Spotlight on Dyslexia to discuss his brain-based research at NeuroSpin, a world-renowned center in advanced brain imaging. Professor Dehaene is the Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Coll\u00e9ge de France in Paris. His research investigates the neural bases of human cognitive functions such as reading and language, with particular interest in the impact brain-based learning has on education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\"Stanislas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The title of his presentation, \u201cHow Learning to Read Changes the Brain: Implications for Education,\u201d began with an end goal in mind \u2013 to have a clear understanding of how a child\u2019s brain truly learns to read. Based on his research, he examines how to best teach reading by focusing on letters, their order, and their correspondences to phonemes, and how to diagnose different forms of dyslexia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mind\u2019s Ears and Eyes of Learning <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New brain imaging and modeling studies paint a detailed picture of how the ventral visual cortex and associated language areas become attuned to reading. Analyzing advanced brain-based images of children learners, Dehaene\u2019s research reveals that our brains are wired for spoken language at birth, and it has a strong biological basis early in a child\u2019s brain — long before they learn to read. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He says, \u201cReading acquisition recycles several pre-existing visual and auditory areas of the brain to reorient them to the processing of letters and phonemes.\u201d Comparisons of literate and illiterate brains have revealed three major sites of enhancement due to schooling:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. the early visual cortex,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. the \u00ab visual word form area \u00bb (also known as \u201cthe brain\u2019s letterbox\u201d, a region specializing in the visual recognition of letter strings), and\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. the planum temporale (a region involved in phonological processing).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cReading starts in our brains like any other visual stimulation in the visual areas, but quickly moves into an area that is concerned with the recognition of written words,\u201d he says. \u201cLearning to read consists of recognizing letters and how they combine into written words, and then connecting them to the brain systems for coding of speech sounds and for meaning.\u201d He refers to this area of the brain as the “letterbox” because it stores our knowledge of letter recognition.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    From that point, he says there is an explosion of learning activity happening in two important brain networks; one that concerns the meaning of words, and one that concerns the pronunciation and articulation of words. He describes this brain processing act as, \u201cemerging readers \u2018listen\u2019 in their mind\u2019s ear, and begin to connect what they hear to a spelling pattern or brain word in their mind\u2019s eye in a specialized cortical area in the left hemisphere called the visual word form area. The beginning reader\u2019s brain acts as a super-computer that must be fed with structured inputs, a well-designed curriculum, and explicit teaching of phonics and spelling. It is also essential for parents and teachers to converse with young children to build a solid base for language development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Improve Your Professional Knowledge of Brain-Based Learning\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Reading develops the phonological areas of the brain and gives access to writing in all spoken language areas of the brain. Learning about the science of reading and how the brain learns to read can help you put many more early readers and struggling readers on a new path to becoming comprehensive readers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    To encourage more school and district administrators to update their professional knowledge of the science of reading and brain-based learning, Learning Ally offers professional development led by experts. Learn more today<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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