Professors Marcel Just, Ann Meyler, and Tim Killer studied 25 fifth-graders who had undergone an hour a day of intensive reading instruction over a 100-day period. The scientists used magnetic resonance imagery (MRIs) to demonstrate that the children showed increases in activity in cortical regions of the brain associated with reading. Many of the students' brains activated at near-normal levels after the round of remedial instruction.
The research team expressed hope that remedial education may help students in subjects besides reading.
"We are at the beginning of a new era of neuro-education," said Dr. Just, director of the Carnegie Mellon Center for Cognitive Brain Imagery.
This study appears in the journal Neuropsychologia.
Labels: school, reading, brain-chemistry
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