Reading in the brain : the science and evolution of a human invention / Stanislas Dehaene.
Dehaene, Stanislas.
2009
BF456.R2 D36 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Reading in the brain : the science and evolution of a human invention / Stanislas Dehaene.
Author Dehaene, Stanislas.
ISBN 9780670021109
0670021105
Imprint New York : Viking, 2009.
Language English
Description xi, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number BF456.R2 D36 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 418/.4019
Summary The author provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the "reading paradox": our cortex is the product of millions of years of evolution in a world without writing, so how did it adapt to recognize words?
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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