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Brain Reflection

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The Literate Brain seminar is part of the online lecture series called the Evolving Brain. The lecture began with a short video explaining clarity. Clarity is a way of looking at the brain in which the brain becomes transparent and specific markers can be used to highlight different features. This is done through the use of a mesh designed to keep the parts of the brain in place and then the fats and lipid bilayer are removed to make the brain transparent. This allows researchers to more clearly study the individual connections and activated neurons in the brain. Dr. Pélagie Beason gave this lecture and is the head of the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences department at the University of Arizona.

Written language has a history of 6,000 years and various across many systems such as symbolic and alphabetic representations. Early language development is a process of association. Toddlers and children associate various sensory inputs with meaning and begin to learn a systematic code of signs, sounds, and symbols that become language. Toddlers learn much about spoken language and then in early childhood, children begin to map spoken words to written words. Literacy development in children begins with visual form recognition and is followed by concept development, spoken language development, and written language development.

Adult literacy complements handwriting skills with typing and texting skills. In adult literacy, adult vocabulary grows and new word learning

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