Proust and squid. Neurobiology of reading
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How do we learn to read? The brain of every new reader - a child who has just begun to develop this skill - has an extraordinary ability to go beyond the limits of his original abilities in order to understand written characters. For millennia from the moment a person learned to read, a real intellectual evolution of our entire species has occurred. The brain of the one who disassembles the cerebral spokes on clay tablets functions differently than the one who reads the alphabets, and even more than the one who is familiar with the latest technologies. There is both progress and a reason for concern: writing reduced the need for memory training, and enhanced information flows and features of modern digital culture can have deep consequences for our brain in the future.
In this book, which instantly won world fame, the prominent American neurobiologist Marianna Wolf explores as “open architecture”, the plasticity of our brain helps and prevents people in their attempts to learn to read and process the written language. The reader will have a fascinating journey through times and eras, acquaintance with a variety of illustrations of the development of an individual - from a baby who listens to a lullaby, to a real expert - a reader of the works of Proust. Having understood how the evolution and development of reading changed the very structure of the human brain and the essence of our intellectual life, we will understand that we are really what we read
In this book, which instantly won world fame, the prominent American neurobiologist Marianna Wolf explores as “open architecture”, the plasticity of our brain helps and prevents people in their attempts to learn to read and process the written language. The reader will have a fascinating journey through times and eras, acquaintance with a variety of illustrations of the development of an individual - from a baby who listens to a lullaby, to a real expert - a reader of the works of Proust. Having understood how the evolution and development of reading changed the very structure of the human brain and the essence of our intellectual life, we will understand that we are really what we read
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Politics & Social Science
- Category:Psychology
- Category:Reference books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Series:
Series: Thinking person. Ideas capable of changing the world
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-389-15577-0
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