Rose Kerr

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All In The Mind · Trying to read more? Your brain will thank you · 25 Sep 2026 podcast

So if you're reading English, it'll be letters.

But other languages, you might better describe it as characters.

Right, right.

Then our brains attach the shape of the word to what it sounds like, which is called the phonological information.

of thing.

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

And then we combine those two parts with the meaning of the word.

So our brain's like sticking them together like a puzzle.

Absolutely.

That's the

Yeah, exactly.

And that is called lexical processing.

Yeah, it's pretty much just that, but it does involve quite a lot of brain coordination to get your eyes and attention moving from word to word.

Like it is complicated.

And at the same time, we've got multiple cognitive systems all working together.

So our language and visual processing systems and our memory.

Yes

So to answer that question, you first have to recognize that reading is an invented skill.

This is Dr. Lily Yu.

She's a senior lecturer in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University.

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