Proust and the squid : the story and science of the reading brain / Maryanne Wolf ; illustrations by Catherine Stoodley.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : HarperCollins, 2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780060186395
- 0060186399
- 612.8/2 22
- QP408 .W65 2007
- 2007 K-365
- WL 300
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-295) and index.
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".
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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