TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolf,Maryanne
AU  - Stoodley,Catherine J.
TI  - Proust and the squid: the story and science of the reading brain 
SN  - 9780060186395
AV  - QP408 .W64 2007
U1  - 612.8/2 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Harper
KW  - Reading history
KW  - Brain
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Neurophysiology
KW  - Reading comprehension
KW  - Reading
KW  - Research
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-295) and index; 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"
N2  - 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
ER  -