Reading Changes Your Brain

[Trike]

This is interesting stuff:

Martin Luther Rewired Your Brain

https://thisviewoflife.com/martin-lut...

The opening paragraphs:

Your brain has been altered, neurologically re-wired as you acquired a particular skill. This renovation has left you with a specialized area in your left ventral occipital temporal region, shifted facial recognition into your right hemisphere, reduced your inclination toward holistic visual processing, increased your verbal memory, and thickened your corpus callosum, which is the information highway that connects the left and right hemispheres of your brain.

What accounts for these neurological and psychological changes?

You are likely highly literate. As you learned to read, probably as a child, your brain reorganized itself to better accommodate your efforts, which had both functional and inadvertent consequences for your mind.

[John (Nevets)]

I'm probably a bit biased having grown up in a Lutheran church. And I'm also sure 500 years changes history, but I always thought ML did some pretty good things back in his day. But, I wasn't aware, or didn't remember, the impact on literacy he had.

Thanks for sharing.

[Elizabeth]

You've reminded me I inherited a book on medieval heresy & literacy (Heresy and Literacy, 1000-1530 that I haven't opened yet, I might bring it forward on The Pile.

I did know about the impact of Luther and other heretics on literacy in general, but I didn't know about the science of the brain and how literacy impacted it. Cool stuff!