According to the Wernicke-Geschwind model...
Wernicke’s A. essential for reading...
Visual processing --> Angular g. --> Wernicke's a.--> Semantics
Angular gyrus (39) translates visual code to a form accessible by Wernicke’s a.
- grapheme --> phoneme translation
Wernicke’s a. translates to a form that can access meaning.
Implication: Reading requires phonological recoding via Wernicke’s A.