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In a press release issued today, Dr Richard Shillcock, of the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation in the School of Informatics [at the University of Edinburgh], said: "We are trying to model what the brain does on computers and, somewhat reassuringly, we've noticed computers behaving like humans as they read words. In our model, the effect is due to the fact that the human brain is divided in two hemispheres and, when the eye first lands on a word, the two parts of the word are initially projected to opposing sides of the brain. In this theoretical framework, some of the reading problems observed in dyslexia are due to differences in transfer of information between the two sides of the brain."
