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The action of reading is a miracle. Every new reader's brain possesses the astonishing capacity to rearrange itself beyond its original capabilities in order to comprehend written symbols. But how exactly does the brain figure out how to read? As world-renowned cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading Maryanne Wolf clarifies in this impassioned book, we educated our brain to read only a few thousand years back, and in the process transformed the intellectual advancement of our varieties.
Wolf explains to us that the mind that examined small clay tablets in the cuneiform script of the Sumerians is configured in different ways from the mind that reads alphabets or of 1 literate in the current technology.
A couple of critical implications to such an evolving brain. Equally as writing reduced the necessity for recollection, the proliferation of information and the particular requirements of digital culture may short-circuit a few of written language's unique contributions--with probably profound effects for our future.
Turning her focus on the development of the individual reading brain, Wolf draws on her skills in dyslexia to investigate what goes on when the mind discovers it difficult to read. Interweaving her great understanding of neuroscience, psychology, literature, and linguistics, Wolf takes the reader from the brains of the pre-literate Homer to a literacy-ambivalent Plato, from an infant hearing Goodnight Moon to a specialist reader of Proust, and lastly to the often misinterpreted child with dyslexia whose presents may be as real as the obstacles he or she faces.
As we come to appreciate how the advancement and development of reading have transformed the very agreement of your brain and our intellectual life, we get started to understand with ever better comprehension that we truly are what we should read. Ambitious, provocative, and abundant with examples, Proust and the Squid celebrates reading, one of the solitary most impressive inventions ever sold. Once embarked on this magnificent storyline of the reading brain, you will never again neglect your ability to absorb the written phrase.
