My Brain Is A Wordbox? How Your Brain Learns To Read

 “Did you know that a human brain has an area nicknamed “the word box” that is used to help us learn to read?  Have you ever thought about how a brain begins to figure out the difference between the letter b and the letter d? Or the letter q and the letter p?   In this article in Frontiers for Young Minds,  Kassuba and Kastner explain how our brains learn that letters are special in that they are a code we can use to read.  How does the brain learn, for example, that the letter o in not like other round objects like basketballs or oranges?