Proust and the squid : the story and science of the reading brain
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First edition. |
Harper Perennial,
New York :
2008.
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About
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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Details
- ISBN: 9780060933845
- Physical Description: xi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2008.
- Copyright: ©2007.
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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-295) and index.
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Formatted Contents Note:
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".