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Wolf, Maryanne.
Proust and the squid
[BOOK] :
the story and science of the reading brain /
Maryanne Wolf ; illustrations by Catherine Stoodley.
First edition.
New York, NY :
HarperCollins,
2007.
xi, 308 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [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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Reading comprehension.
Reading
History.
Reading
Research.
Neurophysiology.
Brain
Evolution.
Stoodley, C. J.
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