The Brain and Reading - Balanced Reading

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The Brain and ReadingSebastian Wren, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (800) 476-6861211 E. 7th Street Austin, Texas EducationalDevelopment LaboratoryWith a PET scan (above left), radioactive glucose isinjected into the blood stream. The most activeneurons absorb more of the radioactive glucose, so itis easy to take a picture of the Brain s activity duringdifferenttasks. With an MRI (above right), magneticfields are generated that cause the nuclei of theneurons to line up, making it possible to take adifferent kind of picture of the Brain s you read this passage quietly toyourself, certain parts of your Brain areworking to try to make sense of differentaspects of the information contained in thistext.

The Brain and Reading Sebastian Wren, Ph.D. The Southwest Educational Development Laboratory • (800) 476-6861 211 E. 7th Street • Austin, Texas 78701

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