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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maryanne Wolf; Catherine J Stoodley |
| ISBN: | 9781848310308 1848310307 9781840468670 184046867X |
| OCLC Number: | 181927447 |
| Notes: | Originally published: New York: HarperCollins, 2007. |
| Description: | xi, 308 p. : ill. ; 23 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. |
Abstract:
Explores how our brains learnt to read. This work presents a discussion ranging from the history of the earliest known examples of written language, to whether reading online really is making us 'stupider', and why dyslexia can be a gift.
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"'As booksellers, we don't need to be convinced of the importance of reading, but Maryanne Wolf's sage book goes far beyond what even we imagined. Wolf... is not content to discuss the cultural significance of reading; she asserts with convincing evidence that this activity has radically changed the very organization of the human brain.' www.barnesandnoble.com" Read more...
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