Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections
Reading a Word
As we read a word, MEG (Magnetoencephalography) reveals a complex chain of events across many parts of the brain.
New imaging tools allow us to observe the rich array of connections between many parts of the brain involved in doing anything. Reading a word, for example, is the result not of activating a “reading module” but of a complex cascade of activity throughout the brain. (Courtesy of Anders Dale and Eric Halgren.)