Dehaene, Stanislas.

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?

9780670021109

2009009389


Reading, Psychology of.
Reading--Physiological aspects.

BF456.R2 / D36 2009

418/.4019