{"id":141223,"date":"2022-06-28T03:03:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T08:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/dyslexia-actually-grants-special-powers-researchers-say"},"modified":"2022-06-28T03:03:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T08:03:42","slug":"dyslexia-actually-grants-special-powers-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/dyslexia-actually-grants-special-powers-researchers-say","title":{"rendered":"Dyslexia Actually Grants Special Powers, Researchers Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dyslexia-actually-grants-special-powers-researchers-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As much as 20 percent of the global population could actually be better at exploration and curiosity, according to a new study published this week.<\/p>\n<p>A team of Cambridge scientists published research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2022.889245\/full\" class=\"\">in the journal<\/a> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2022.889245\/full\" class=\"\">Frontiers of Psychology<\/a> <\/em>earlier today that raises the possibility that dyslexia, which affects an estimated one in five people worldwide, could actually help the human species adapt and ensure future success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deficit-centered view of dyslexia isn\u2019t telling the whole story,\u201d lead author Helen Taylor said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cam.ac.uk\/research\/news\/developmental-dyslexia-essential-to-human-adaptive-success-study-argues\" class=\"\">a statement<\/a> accompanying the paper. \u201cThis research proposes a new framework to help us better understand the cognitive strengths of people with dyslexia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as 20 percent of the global population could actually be better at exploration and curiosity, according to a new study published this week. A team of Cambridge scientists published research in the journal Frontiers of Psychology earlier today that raises the possibility that dyslexia, which affects an estimated one in five people worldwide, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}