Scientists from around Australia and overseas will discuss how the brain processes text at a forum convened by Charles Sturt University (CSU) in the Blue Mountains of NSW on Thursday 13 and Friday 14 December. Dr Joanne Arciuli, from CSU’s School of Social Sciences and Liberal Studies, said that the forum - It’s all in the Mind; Information Processing and our Language and Literacy Development - will consider questions such as: What parts of the brain are active during reading? Do we inherit our reading ability? Do you have to be a good speller to be a good reader? and Artificial intelligence is largely based on understanding of the left hemisphere - but what about the right hemisphere? The forum, at the Fairmont Resort, Leura, will report on new research in studies of text, gathering researchers, students, clinicians, educators and technology developers from the Australian Research Council’s Research Network in Human Communication Science (HCSNet), who are working in areas such as visual word recognition, reading and spelling, literacy development, text analyses, brain imaging and computer modelling.