article_snippet: Study Computational Cognitive Neuroscience  looked at the brain activity of 25 adults who had learn a set of 150 nonsense words.
article_snippet: Using the fMRI-rapid adaptation, the team found the visual word form area changed as the participants learned the nonsense words.
article_snippet: The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, looked at the brain activity of 25 adults who had learn a set of 150 nonsense words.
article_snippet: From this, the team found the visual word form area changed as the participants learned the 'nonsense' words.
article_snippet: In particular, the team found the visual word form area in the fusiform gyrus (shown in purple) changed as the participants learned the 'nonsense' words.
highlights_snippet: Experts studied the brain activity of adults learning 150 'nonsense' words .
  
highlights_snippet: It showed the visual word form area changed as people learnt fake words .
  