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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maryanne Wolf; Catherine J Stoodley |
| ISBN: | 9780060186395 0060186399 |
| OCLC Number: | 148887403 |
| Description: | xi, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | How the brain learned to read -- Reading lessons from Proust and the squid -- How the brain adapted itself to read: the first writing systems -- The birth of an alphabet and Socrates' protests -- How the brain learns to read over time -- The beginnings of reading development, or not -- The "natural history" of reading development: connecting the parts of the young reading brain --The unending story of reading's development -- When the brain can't learn to read -- Dyslexia's puzzle and the brain's design -- Genes, gifts, and dyslexia -- From the reading brain to "what comes next". |
| Responsibility: | Maryanne Wolf ; illustrations by Catherine Stoodley. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
A developmental psychologist evaluates the ways in which reading and writing have transformed the human brain, in an anecdotal study that reveals the significant changes in evolutionary brain physiology throughout history.
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