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  Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (Paperback) By (author) Maryanne Wolf

  

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  Short Description for Proust and the SquidExplores how our brains learnt to read. This work presents a discussion ranging from the history of the earliest known examples of written language, to whether reading online really is making us 'stupider', and why dyslexia can be a gift.
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  • Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
  • Published: 06 November 2008
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages
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  • Categories: Literacy | Reading Skills | History Of Ideas | Cognition & Cognitive Psychology | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Adult Literacy Guides & Handbooks
  • ISBN 13: 9781848310308 ISBN 10: 1848310307
  • Sales rank: 28,412

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• 'We were never born to read' begins Maryanne Wolf in this pathbreaking exploration of how our brains learnt to read. 'No specific genes ever dictated reading's development. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we changed the very organization of our brain, which in turn expanded the ways we were able to think, which altered the intellectual evolution of our species'. From the history of the earliest known examples of written language, to whether reading online really is making us 'stupider', and why dyslexia can be a gift, "Proust and the Squid" will ensure you never again take for granted your ability to absorb the written word.