Silent reading isn't so silent, at least, not to your brain
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You can see the blue lines (when the patients were asked to pay attention) showed increases in electrical activity in this area when the patients were presented with written words. This is an auditory cortex that usually responds to speech, and apparently, to our brains, the written word counts as speech.
8:06 PM Oct 03 2014