Current BiologyVolume 31, Issue 6, 22 March 2021, Pages R284-R287DispatchVision: What’s so special about words?Author links open overlay panelColin J. DavisShow moreShareCitehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.052Get rights and contentUnder an Elsevier user licenseopen archiveSummaryReaders are sensitive to the statistics of written language. New research suggests that this sensitivity may be driven by the same domain-general mechanisms that enable the visual system to detect statistical regularities in the visual environment.Previous article in issueNext article in issueRecommended articlesCited by (0)© 2021 Elsevier Inc.