The human brain has a region in the left lateral occipitotemporal sulcus called the visual word form area (VWFA).
This region is activated when we scan letters for meaning, but *how did it evolve* if we only invented writing ~6000 years ago?
It could be a product of "neuronal recycling"!
The left ventral occipitotemporal cortex has been traditionally viewed as a pathway for visual object recognition including written letters and words. Its cr...
