ID | 025485 |
Call Number | 418.4019/WOL |
Title Proper | Proust and the squid: the story and science of the reading brain |
Language | ENG |
Author | Wolf, Maryanne |
Publication | London, Icon Books, 2008. |
Description | ix, 310p Blue and cream spine |
Note | 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. |
Note | How the brain learned to read 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 How the brain learns to read over time 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 From the reading brain to "what comes next." |
Standard Number | 9781848310308 |
Price. Qualification | Rs.499(Pb) |
Classification Number | 418.4019 |
Key Words | Brain ; Literacy ; Brain - Physiology ; IBDP ; Neurophysiology ; Cognitive neuroscience ; Brain - Evolution ; Reading comprehension ; Reading, Psychology of |