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Zvezdan Pirtošek From Letters to Pixels: How the Brain Reads in the Era
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia of Artificial Intelligence
zvezdan.pirtosek@kclj.si
©2026Zvezdan Pirtošek This presentation explores the neuroscientific foundations of the ‘neural reor-
ganisation’ necessitated by the human brain’s acquisition of reading. It examines
the cognitive transition from linear text processing to the interpretation of multi-
modal stimuli, incorporating text, imagery, audio, and animation. Furthermore, it
investigates how digital environments and artificial intelligence are recalibrating
attentional control, deep reading capacities, and the faculty for coherent argu-
mentation and composition. Central to this discussion is an analysis of the im-
plications these shifts hold for the conceptualisation of reading literacy in both
contemporary and future landscapes.

Meaning-Making, Multiliteracies
and Multimodality
Abstracts of the International
Symposium
Koper, 19–20 March 2026

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