If you are reading this column, in all probability you have already gone through a lot of words and sentences with much ease: You are a proficient reader who uses existing knowledge to make sense of text. Billions of humans belong to this category — just glancing through words and deciphering the meaning of a sentence, sometimes within the blink of an eye.
We appear to be natural at reading, but is that true? Formal reading and writing evolved just a few thousand years ago, much later after the first civilisations came into existence.
To develop reading skills, the brain
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