How our brain captures what we read

Have you ever wondered how what you are reading now reaches the brain ? Other organs are needed to get information to the brain and be processed in the right way. The truth is that everything happens at an incredible speed and without our noticing. In this article we explain how our brain captures what we read.

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First of all, it is the retina, the sensitive membrane of the eye composed of 500 million receptor cells, which identifies words almost instantaneously.

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By means of electrical impulses, the captured images are transmitted to the brain and to the millions of nerve cells: the neurons .

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At the same time, to capture what we have read, the brain records the verbal images in groups of two or three.

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And, without realizing, at the time of reading we divide each line into six or seven parts of about ten letters each, and we jump from one fragment to another, in two hundred and thousandths of a second.

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It should be noted that, thanks to the large amount of information accumulated by neurons, the human brain is able to guess the end of a sentence when the eyes are still reading the beginning.