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Summary: Researchers argue those with dyslexia are specialized to explore the unknown.

Cambridge researchers studying cognition, behavior and the brain have concluded that people with dyslexia are specialized to explore the unknown.

“This research proposes a new framework to help us better understand the cognitive strengths of people with dyslexia.”.

She added: “We believe that the areas of difficulty experienced by people with dyslexia result from a cognitive trade-off between exploration of new information and exploitation of existing knowledge, with the upside being an explorative bias that could explain enhanced abilities observed in certain realms like discovery, invention and creativity.”.

“Considering this trade-off, an explorative specialization in people with dyslexia could help explain why they have difficulties with tasks related to exploitation, such as reading and writing.

“It could also explain why people with dyslexia appear to gravitate towards certain professions that require exploration-related abilities, such as arts, architecture, engineering, and entrepreneurship.”.

“Developmental Dyslexia: Developmental Disorder or Specialization in Explorative Cognitive Search” by Helen Taylor et al.

Developmental Dyslexia: Developmental Disorder or Specialization in Explorative Cognitive Search.

We raise the new possibility that people diagnosed with developmental dyslexia (DD) are specialized in explorative cognitive search, and rather than having a neurocognitive disorder, play an essential role in human adaptation.

We report evidence of an explorative bias in DD-associated cognitive strategies.

High DD prevalence and an attendant explorative bias across multiple areas of cognition suggest the existence of explorative specialization.

The existence of a system of collective cognitive search that emerges through collaboration would help to explain our species’ exceptional adaptiveness