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

Wolf, Maryanne. (Author). Stoodley, Catherine J. (Added Author).

Summary: 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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  • ISBN: 9780060933845 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0060933844
  • Physical Description: print
    xi, 306 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2008, c2007.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-295) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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 -- 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 -- Dyslexia's puzzle and the brain's design -- Genes, gifts, and dyslexia -- Conclusions : from the reading brain to "what comes next."
Subject: Brain Evolution
Neurophysiology
Reading comprehension
Reading Research
Brain growth & development
Brain physiology
Comprehension physiology
Dyslexia
Reading

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