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

Proust and the squid

the story and science of the reading brain
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Maryanne Wolf ; illustrations by Catherine Stoodley
Book - 2007

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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Main Author: Wolf, Maryanne
Other Authors: Stoodley, Catherine J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper, c2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Brain > Evolution.
Neurophysiology.
Reading comprehension.
Reading > Research.
Reading > History.
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Proust and the squid [ebook] : The story and science of the reading brain.
Proust and the squid
The story and science of the reading brain
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by Wolf, Maryanne
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505 0 |a 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". 
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