Proust and the squid
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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| Glavni autor: | Wolf, Maryanne (-) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
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New York :
Harper Perennial,
2008.
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- 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
- 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
- Dyslexia's puzzle and the brain's design
- Genes, gifts, and dyslexia
- Conclusions : from the reading brain to "what comes next."