Bridging Nature and Nurture: Study reveals brain’s flexible foundation from birth - Scientific Inquirer

Bridging Nature and Nurture: Study reveals brain’s flexible foundation from birth - Scientific Inquirer

Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain’s visual system in you and nearly every other reader of this story? And that a different set of face-sensitive visual regions—again in almost identical positions in each reader’s brain—would activate to process the faces of the researchers, should you meet them? For years, researchers have debated how our brains consistently deve…