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Proust and the squid : the story and science of the reading brain
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Proust and the squid : the story and science of the reading brain

Author: Maryanne Wolf; Catherine J Stoodley
Publisher: Thriplow : Icon, 2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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Document Type: Book
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.

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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  Read more...

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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 Read more...

 
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