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Proust and the Squid The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Maryanne Wolf

“Wolf restores our awe of the human brain—its adaptability, its creativity, and its ability to connect with other minds through a procession of silly squiggles.” — How do people learn to read and write—and how has the development of these skills transformed the brain and the world itself ? Neuropsy...

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The Ezra Klein Show

The host introduced Maryanne Wolf as the author of this book about the science of the reading brain, and Wolf later reflected on how the book sparked her insight into the unnaturalness of reading.

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She's the author of Proust and the Squid, the story and science of the reading brain

— Episode: Best Of: This Is Your Brain on Deep Read...

Episode: Best Of: This Is Your Brain on Deep Reading. It’s...

The host introduced Maryanne Wolf as the author of this book about the science of the reading brain, and Wolf later reflected on how the book sparked her insight into the unnaturalness of reading.

"

She's the author of Proust and the Squid, the story and science of the reading brain

It was a book called Proust and the Squid, The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. I realized that there was nothing in the brain, not a single gene, not a single region that was specifically there for reading.

Episode: This Conversation About the 'Reading Mind' Is a Gi...

The book was identified as Maryanne Wolf's work on the science of the reading brain, and it was highlighted as the source of her key insights about reading being an unnatural process.

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She's the author of Proust and the Squid, The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

It was a book called Proust and the Squid, The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

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