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Proust and the squid
the story and science of the reading brain
By Wolf, Maryanne & Stoodley, Catherine J.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06018-639-5
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Harper, c2007.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 15, 2007
In her first book aimed at a general readership, Wolf (director, Ctr. for Reading and Language Research, Tufts Univ.) examines reading's extraordinary evolution. Beginning with an exploration of how the human brain evolved and adapted itself to become able to read, she then offers a history of linguistic development that concludes with the progress of alphabet-based languages. Wolf's detailed description of how children learn to read examines this process from combine...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
