Proust and the Squid : The Story and Science of the Reading Brain Paperback - 2008
by Wolf, Maryanne
- Used
A remarkable tour de force by a world-renown neuroscientist explains that human beings were never born to read; this invention changed the very organization of man's brain and altered the intellectual evolution of the species.
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- Title Proust and the Squid : The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- Author Wolf, Maryanne
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
- Date 2008-08-26
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 8481442-6
- ISBN 9780060933845 / 0060933844
- Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 7.62 x 5.64 x 0.85 in (19.35 x 14.33 x 2.16 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 612.82
From the rear cover
"Human beings were never born to read," writes Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and child development expert Maryanne Wolf. Reading is a human invention that reflects how the brain rearranges itself to learn something new. In this ambitious, provocative book, Wolf chronicles the remarkable journey of the reading brain not only over the past five thousand years, since writing began, but also over the course of a single child's life, showing in the process why children with dyslexia have reading difficulties and singular gifts.
Lively, erudite, and rich with examples, Proust and the Squid asserts that the brain that examined the tiny clay tablets of the Sumerians was a very different brain from the one that is immersed in today's technology-driven literacy. The potential transformations in this changed reading brain, Wolf argues, have profound implications for every child and for the intellectual development of our species.
