Reading in the Brain
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780670021109
Description: In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene 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?