Two regions in the left hemisphere of the brain, which are crucial for language, are different in people who are good at reading and are likely to be shaped by the habit.
Reading is a skill so foundational to education, to democracy, and to our notion of modern culture that we judge (and are judged on) how literate our population is compared with other nations.
This valuable study relating brain anatomy to reading ability in children studied longitudinally finds that a difference in sulcal anatomy is more predictive of reading ability than cognitive measures ...