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

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Wolf, Maryanne

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"As world-renowned cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading Maryanne Wolf explains in this book, we taught our brain to read only a few thousand years ago, and in the process changed the int...

"As world-renowned cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading Maryanne Wolf explains in this book, we taught our brain to read only a few thousand years ago, and in the process changed the intellectual evolution of our species." "Wolf tells us that the brain that examined tiny clay tablets in the cuneiform script of the Sumerians is configured differently from the brain that reads alphabets or of one literate in today's technology. Turning her attention to the development of the individual reading brain, Wolf draws on her expertise in dyslexia to investigate what happens when the brain finds it difficult to read. Wolf takes the reader from the brains of a pre-literate Homer to a literacy-ambivalent Plato, from an infant listening to Goodnight Moon to an expert reader of Proust, and finally to an often misunderstood child with dyslexia whose gifts may be as real as the challenges he or she faces."--BOOK JACKET.

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