TY - BOOK AU - Dehaene,Stanislas TI - Reading in the brain: the science and evolution of a human invention SN - 0670021105 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Viking KW - Reading KW - Physiological aspects KW - Reading, Psychology of N1 - 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 N2 - 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? ER -