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Total pages original book: 388
Includes a PDF summary of 43 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 31M46S (8.6 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: 'Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work.' -Oliver Sacks, M.D. The act of reading is so easily taken for granted that we forget what an astounding feat it is. How can a few black marks on white paper evoke an entire universe of meanings? It's even more amazing when we consider that we read using a primate brain that evolved to serve an entirely different purpose. In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene explores every aspect of this human invention, from its origins to its neural underpinnings. A world authority on the subject, Dehaene reveals the hidden logic of spelling, describes pioneering research on hiw we process languages, and takes us into a new appreciation of the brain and its wondrous capacity to adapt.
Other categories, genre or collection: Adult Literacy Guides & Handbooks, Educational Psychology, Physiological & Neuro-psychology, Biopsychology, Cognition & Cognitive Psychology, Teaching Of A Specific Subject, Science: General Issues