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Proust and the Squid - Maryanne Wolf

Written by Maryanne Wolf
Read by Kirsten Potter
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The act of reading is a miracle. Every new reader’s brain possesses the extraordinary capacity to rearrange itself beyond its original abilities in order to understand written symbols. But how does the brain learn to read? As world-renowned cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading Maryanne Wolf explains in this impassioned book, we taught our brain to read only a few thousand years ago, and in the process changed the intellectual evolution of our species.

Wolf tells us that the brain that examined tiny clay tablets in the cuneiform script of the Sumerians is configured differently from the brain that reads alphabets or of one literate in today’s technology.

There are critical implications to such an evolving brain. Just as writing reduced the need for memory, the proliferation of information and the particular requirements of digital culture may short-circuit some of written language’s unique contributions—with potentially profound consequences for our future.

Turning her attention to the development of the individual reading brain, Wolf draws on her expertise in dyslexia to investigate what happens when the brain finds it difficult to read. Interweaving her vast knowledge of neuroscience, psychology, literature, and linguistics, Wolf takes the reader from the brains of a pre-literate Homer to a literacy-ambivalent Plato, from an infant listening to Goodnight Moon to an expert reader of Proust, and finally to an often misunderstood child with dyslexia whose gifts may be as real as the challenges he or she faces.

As we come to appreciate how the evolution and development of reading have changed the very arrangement of our brain and our intellectual life, we begin to realize with ever greater comprehension that we truly are what we read. Ambitious, provocative, and rich with examples, Proust and the Squid celebrates reading, one of the single most remarkable inventions in history. Once embarked on this magnificent story of the reading brain, you will never again take for granted your ability to absorb the written word.

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Creation Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:21:47 -0400
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100 _ Preface.mp3 2.09 MBs
101 _ Part 1 _ Ch 1 _ Reading Lessons from Proust and the Squid.mp3 16.77 MBs
102 _ Part 1 _ Ch 2 _ How the Brain Adapted Itself to Read.mp3 21.03 MBs
103 _ Part 1 _ Ch 3 _ The Birth of an Alphabet and Socrates’ Protests.mp3 23.03 MBs
104 _ Part 2 _ Ch 4 _ The Beginnings of Reading Development, Or Not.mp3 21.86 MBs
105 _ Part 2 _ Ch 5 _ The Natural History of Reading Development.mp3 20.7 MBs
106 _ Part 2 _ Ch 6 _ The Unending Story of Reading’s Development.mp3 20.53 MBs
107 _ Part 3 _ Ch 7 _ Dyslexia’s Puzzle and the Brain’s Design.mp3 21.91 MBs
108 _ Part 3 _ Ch 8 _ Genes, Gifts, and Dyslexia.mp3 10.49 MBs
109 _ Part 3 _ Ch 9 _ Conclusions.mp3 14.35 MBs
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