(Download Book) Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain Writen By Maryanne Wolf

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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

By : Maryanne Wolf

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Book Synopsis :

The act of reading is a miracle. Every new reader's brain possesses the extraordinary capacity to rearrange itself beyond its original abilities in order to understand written symbols. But how does the brain learn to read? As world-renowned cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading Maryanne Wolf explains in this impassioned book, we taught our brain to read only a few thousand years ago, and in the process changed the intellectual evolution of our species.Wolf tells us that the brain that examined tiny clay tablets in the cuneiform script of the Sumerians is configured differently from the brain that reads alphabets or of one literate in today's technology.There are critical implications to such an evolving brain. Just as writing reduced the need for memory, the proliferation of information and the particular requirements of digital culture may short-circuit some of written language's unique contributions?with potentially profound consequences for our future.Turning her

Book Detail :

Author : Maryanne Wolf

Pages : 308 pages

Publisher : Harper

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 289751.Proust_and_the_Squid

ISBN-13 : 9780060186395

 

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