Reading in the brain : the science and evolution of a human invention /
Dehaene, Stanislas.
Reading in the brain : the science and evolution of a human invention / Science and evolution of a human invention Stanislas Dehaene. - New York : Viking, 2009. - xi, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-375) and index.
The new science of reading -- How do we read? -- The brain's letterbox -- The reading ape -- Inventing reading -- Learning to read -- The dyslexic brain -- Reading and symmetry -- Toward a culture of neurons -- The future of reading.
The author provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the "reading paradox": our cortex is the product of millions of years of evolution in a world without writing, so how did it adapt to recognize words?
0670021105 9780670021109
2009009389
Reading--Physiological aspects.
Reading, Psychology of.
Reading in the brain : the science and evolution of a human invention / Science and evolution of a human invention Stanislas Dehaene. - New York : Viking, 2009. - xi, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-375) and index.
The new science of reading -- How do we read? -- The brain's letterbox -- The reading ape -- Inventing reading -- Learning to read -- The dyslexic brain -- Reading and symmetry -- Toward a culture of neurons -- The future of reading.
The author provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the "reading paradox": our cortex is the product of millions of years of evolution in a world without writing, so how did it adapt to recognize words?
0670021105 9780670021109
2009009389
Reading--Physiological aspects.
Reading, Psychology of.