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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Wolf, Maryanne, author.     Subjects     Brain -- Evolution.     Neurophysiology.     Reading comprehension.     Reading -- History.     Reading -- Research.     Dyslexia.     Reading.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wolf, Maryanne, author.       by title:      Proust and the squid...         MARC Display

Proust and the squid : the story and science of the reading brain / Maryanne Wolf ; illustrations by Catherine Stoodley. by Wolf, Maryanne, author. New York : Harper Perennial, 2008. Subjects Brain -- Evolution.   Neurophysiology.   Reading comprehension.   Reading -- History.   Reading -- Research.   Dyslexia.   Reading. ISBN:  9780060933845 (paperback) 0060933844 (paperback) Description:  xi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm Edition:  First Harper Perennial edition. Contents:  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 -- When the brain can't learn to read -- Dyslexia's puzzle and the brain's design -- Genes, gifts, and dyslexia -- Conclusions : from the reading brain to "what comes next." Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 612.82 Wo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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