Researchers were able to determine the role of the inferior temporal lobe of the brain in this process.
Scientists at the Universities of Frankfurt and Vienna studied human brain activity while reading, and said they were able to visualize the processes taking place in the brain.
It is known that the lower temporal lobe of the human brain is responsible for reading. At the same time, it was not possible to determine its function for sure until now.
To clarify this issue, scientists have developed a special mathematical model. It uses behavioral data from the field of psychology and allows predicting the activity of the left lower temporal lobe.
As a result of the experiment, the scientists confirmed the hypothesis that this area of the brain separates already familiar words from unfamiliar ones. Known words are allowed to undergo further processing.
During the reading process, training the filtering process affects reading efficiency. This information will help experts understand the processes of thinking and perception that occur in the human brain.