Reading in the brain : the science and evolution of a human invention /
Stanislas Dehaene.
- New York : Viking, 2009.
- xi, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-375) and index.
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?