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Author Dehaene, Stanislas.

Title Reading in the brain : the science and evolution of a human invention / Stanislas Dehaene.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2009.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  418.4019 DEHAENE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  418.4019 DEHAENE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  418 DEH    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  418.4 DEHAENE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  428.4 D36    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  418.409 DEHAENE    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  418.4 DEH    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  418.4 DEHAENE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  153.6 DEHAENE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  418.4 DE    Check Shelf
Description xi, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-375) and index.
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.
Summary 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?
Subject Reading, Psychology of.
Reading -- Physiological aspects.
ISBN 9780670021109
0670021105
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