Learning to read rewires the brain in just six months

Learning to read and wires rewires the brain in just six months, according to new research. A study of women in India who learned to read in their 30s has shown the human brain's incredible capacity to reorganise and transform itself, researchers said. Researchers recruited women in India, a country with an illiteracy rate of around 39 per cent, to see what they could learn about the areas of the brain devoted to reading. Learning to read and wires rewires the brain in just six months, according to new research. Pictured is an artist's impression of the brain Researchers studying Indian women learning to read for the first time in their 30s found looking at books can prompt the brain to reorganise itself.