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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Stanislas Dehaene |
ISBN: | 9780143118053 0143118056 9780670021109 0670021105 |
OCLC Number: | 697202095 |
Description: | xi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The new science of reading -- How do we read? -- The brain's letterbox -- The reading ape -- Inventing reading -- Learning to read -- The dyslexic brain -- Reading and symmetry -- Toward a culture of neurons -- The future of reading. |
Responsibility: | Stanislas Dehaene. |
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Abstract:
In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the "reading paradox": Our cortex is the product of millions of years of evolution in a world without writing, so how did it adapt to recognize words?

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