Proust and the squid : the story and science of the reading brain / Maryanne Wolf ; illustrations by Catherine Stoodley.
Wolf, Maryanne.; Stoodley, Catherine J.
2007
QP408 .W64 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Proust and the squid : the story and science of the reading brain / Maryanne Wolf ; illustrations by Catherine Stoodley.
Author Wolf, Maryanne.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780060186395
0060186399
Publication Details New York, NY : HarperCollins, c2007.
Language English
Description xi, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number QP408 .W64 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 612.8/2
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-295) and index.
Added Author Stoodley, Catherine J.
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