Proust and the Squid
Subtitle: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781848310308
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Reading, psychology of; Brain, evolution; Cognitive neuroscience
First sentence: We were never born to read.
Table of contents: label: List of Illustrations
pagenum: v; label: About the Author
pagenum: vi; label: Preface
pagenum: vii; label: Part I
title: How the Brain Learned to Read; label: Chapter 1
title: Reading Lessons from Proust and the Squid
pagenum: 3; label: Chapter 2
title: How the Brain Adapted Itself to Read: The First Writing Systems
pagenum: 24; label: Chapter 3
title: The Birth of an Alphabet and Socrates' Protests
pagenum: 51; label: Part II
title: How the Brain Learns to Read Over Time; label: Chapter 4
title: The Beginnings of Reading Development, or Not
pagenum: 81; label: Chapter 5
title: The "Natural History" of Reading Development: Connecting the Parts of the Young Reading Brain
pagenum: 108; label: Chapter 6
title: The Unending Story of Reading’s Development
pagenum: 134; label: Part III
title: When the Brain Can’t Learn to Read; label: Chapter 7
title: Dyslexia’s Puzzle and the Brain’s Design
pagenum: 165; label: Chapter 8
title: Genes, Gifts, and Dyslexia
pagenum: 198; label: Chapter 9
title: Conclusions: From the Reading Brain to “What Comes Next”
pagenum: 212; label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 231; label: Notes
pagenum: 237; label: Text Acknowledgments
pagenum: 297; label: Index
pagenum: 301