About a third of our brain is specialized in analyzing things that we see. This part of the brain is also known as the visual system. This system is based in the cortex, the folded surface of the brain. Areas of the visual system lie in occipital cortex and parts of temporal and parietal cortices.
Other parts of the brain help us understand and produce language (to speak). These parts are located mostly in the left hemisphere, or the left half of the brain. Regions for understanding language are found in left temporal cortex, and regions for producing language are found in left frontal cortex. When we read, both the visual system and the language regions are involved: the visual system examines what the words look like, and the language regions tell us what they mean.
A third part of the brain links the visual system and the language regions together. We will call this region the wordbox, but it is also known as visual word form area.

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