Lebanon’s human capital is in a state of crisis, both at the school and higher education levels. This state threatens to impede long term growth, as well as human capital development. The webinar will discuss the current state of the education sector in Lebanon, focusing on how the crisis has affected the sector, and propose policy recommendations to help bring the sector back on its feet.
The focus this week includes: a #Tech4Rights Expo; a national conference on Combating Illicit Financial Flows; the impact of Covid-19 on the existing health crisis and also African civic society organisations; the Way Forward on the Trips Waiver, a webinar on “Disinformation destroys democrac.
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Researchers investigate cognitive brain mechanism devoted to reading
Letters, syllables, words and sentences spatially arranged sets of symbols that acquire meaning when we read them. But is there an area and cognitive mechanism in our brain that is specifically devoted to reading? Probably not; written language is too much of a recent invention for the brain to have developed structures specifically dedicated to it.
According to this novel paper published in
Current Biology, underlying reading there is evolutionarily ancient function that is more generally used to process many other visual stimuli. To prove it, SISSA researchers subjected volunteers to a series of experiments in which they were shown different symbols and images.