| Publication |
London, Icon Books, 2008.
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| Description |
ix, 310pBlue and cream spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
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.
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| Contents |
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."
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| Standard Number |
9781848310308 Pb.
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