Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Maryanne Wolf

306 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction education psychology science reflective slow-paced
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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...

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