Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work.--Oliver Sacks, M.D. The act of reading is so easily taken for granted that we forget what an astounding feat it is. How can a few black marks on white paper evoke an entire universe of meanings? It's even more amazing when we consider that we read using a primate brain that evolved to serve an entirely different purpose. In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene, author of How We Learn, explores every aspect of this human invention, from its origins to its neural underpinnings. A world authority on the subject, Dehaene reveals the hidden logic of spelling, describes pioneering research on hiw we process languages, and takes us into a new appreciation of the brain and its wondrous capacity to adapt.Before becoming one of the world's most active researchers on the cognitive neuroscience of language and number processing in the human brain, Stanislas Dehaene was trained as a mathematician and psychologist. He is the author of The Number Sense and Reading in the Brain, both of which have been widely published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is based in France.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670021109 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670021105 |
| Title | Reading in the Brain |
| Author | Stanislas Dehaene |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2009-11-12 |
| Number of pages | 388 |
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