Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain [Paperback]
Author: Maryanne Wolf - ISBN: 0060933844 - Language: English - Format: PDF, EPUB
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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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- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (August 26, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0060933844
- ISBN-13: 978-0060933845
- Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #8 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Medicine > Basic Sciences > Neuroscience
- #14 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > Linguistics
- #25 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Linguistics
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What is it about humans that makes them so different from the other inhabitants of this planet?
It is not our big brains: many species do just fine with a much simpler model.
It is not our instincts and intuitions: many species have us beaten there as well.
And it is certainly not our empathy or compassion: we can see that those are highly developed in dozens of other species.
The real difference seems to be the way in which we can communicate information that endures. Communications that survive us and can be passed to people that we have never met.
Complex languages that were able to meld the experiences of many senses were the first step. We can tell stories that contain much more than information: they contain and evoke emotions, memories and even tastes and smells.
The second step is far more recent, and it the strange alchemy that in the last few thousand years enabled our ancestors to record, interpret and teach the significance of squiggles and scratchings.
This engaging book focuses on a question that many of us have asked at some time or other. How did we come upon the unlikely skill call reading? How did our brains achieve this extraordinary feat, working only with neurological systems that had never tried to make sense of systematized rule-based visually presented material?
And what happens in our brain when our eyes scan a line of type? Why do some of us, or some of our children, find it difficult to process the visual information locked in words?
Maryanne Wolf is a professor at Tufts University, where she directs the Center for Reading and Language Research and in this book she offers explanations for these and many other questions.
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