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

Author: Maryanne Wolf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 How the brain learned to read is a startling reminder of the amazing achievements of humankind. We were never born to read, says Maryanne Wolf. No specific genes ever dictated readings development. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we changed the very organisation of our brain, which in turn expanded the ways we were able to think, which altered the intellectual evolution of...Read more