Neuroscience![Figure][1] Even in adults, learning to read changes the brain. CREDIT: HOWARD DAVIES/GETTY IMAGES Rather than causing dyslexia, subcortical changes in the brain may result from reduced literacy. Skeide et al. studied illiterate adults from rural northern India. They used brain imaging to see whether learning to read invoked changes in the human brain. After 6 months of teaching illiterate adults to read, the authors assessed brain responses compared with those of controls who were not learning to read. The new readers had increased functional plasticity in the subcortical computation centers of the visual system. Sci. Adv. 10.1126/sciadv.1602612 (2017). [1]: pending:yes