Classic_Monolith reviewed Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
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2 stars
Interesting, I had some aha moments.
Hardcover, 320 pages
English language
Published Sept. 4, 2007 by Harper.
In the Book. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, Harper Perennial, 2008. This is an account of how our brains change as we learn to read.
Interesting, I had some aha moments.
The reading brain: history of written language, reading as a recent innovation learned individually using pre-existing brain features, child development as readers, and the many layers at which that can go wrong producing various subtypes of dyslexia.