Sunday, June 5, 2011

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

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Title: Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Author: Maryanne Wolf
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Year: 2007/2008
320 pages
Audiobook

An enjoyable essay that combines reasonably technical information about brain function in reading and its acquisition with literary references and examples. It flows well and gives a good overview. I found it entertaining to read it as an audiobook, and to identify the researcher or writer whose work she was describing before she named it. I knew all that Goodglass and Geschwind would resurface some day long after my college course on aphasia. 

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