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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.)

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Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections

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Produced by Science Media Group at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in association with the Mind, Brain, and Education program at the Harvard GSE; and the Brain and Creativity Institute and Rossier SOE at the University of Southern California. 2012. 
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  • ISBN: 1-57680-894-7

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