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Proust and the Squid : the Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf; Catherine J Stoodley is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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"Human beings were never born to read," writes Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and child development expert Maryanne Wolf. Reading is a human invention that reflects how the brain rearranges itself to learn something new. In this ambitious, provocative book, Wolf chronicles the remarkable journey of the reading brain not only over the past five thousand years, since writing began, but also over the course of a single child's life, showing in the process why children with dyslexia have reading difficulties and singular gifts. Lively, erudite, and rich with examples, Proust and the Squid asserts that the brain that examined the tiny clay tablets of the Sumerians was a very different brain from the one that is immersed in today's technology-driven literacy. The potential transformations in this changed reading brain, Wolf argues, have profound implications for every child and for the intellectual development of our species.

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Author

Maryanne Wolf; Catherine J Stoodley

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060933845

Category

science

Subjects

Medical, Fiction, Science

Rating

3.79 / 5 (3,708 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13