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• Title:Reading in the brain : the science and evolution of a human invention / Stanislas Deheane.
  
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• Author/Creator:Deheane, Stanislas.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Viking, 2009.
  

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  • Call Number: BF456.R2 D36 2009
    
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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: BF456.R2 D36 2009
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Reading, Psychology of.
  Reading--Physiological aspects.
  
• Description:xi, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-375) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780670021109
  0670021105
  
• Contents:Introduction. New Science of Reading
  From Neurons to Education
  Putting Neurons into Culture
  Mystery of the Reading Ape
  Biological Unity and Cultural Diversity
  Reader's Guide
  Ch. 1. How Do We Read?
  Eye: A Poor Scanner
  Search for Invariants
  Amplifying Differences
  Every Word Is a Tree
  Silent Voice
  Limits of Sound
  Hidden Logic of Our Spelling System
  Impossible Dream of Transparent Spelling
  Two Routes for Reading
  Mental Dictionaries
  Assembly of Daemons
  Parallel Reading
  Active Letter Decoding
  Conspiracy and Competition in Reading
  From Behavior to Brain Mechanisms
  Ch. 2. Brain's Letterbox
  Joseph-Jules Dejerine's Discovery
  Pure Alexia
  Lesion Revealed
  Modern Lesion Analysis
  Decoding the Reading Brain
  Reading Is Universal
  Patchwork of Visual Preferences
  How Fast Do We Read?
  Electrodes in the Brain
  Position Invariance
  Subliminal Reading
  How Culture Fashions the Brain
  Brains of Chinese Readers
  Japanese and Its Two Scripts
  Beyond the Letterbox
  Sound and Meaning
  From Spelling to Sound
  Avenues to Meaning
  Cerebral Tidal Bore
  Brain Limits on Cultural Diversity
  Reading and Evolution
  Ch. 3. Reading Ape
  Of Monkeys and Men
  Neurons for Objects
  Grandmother Cells
  Alphabet in the Monkey Brain
  Proto-Letters
  Acquisition of Shape
  Learning Instinct
  Neuronal Recycling
  Birth of a Culture
  Neurons for Reading
  Bigram Neurons
  Neuronal Word Tree
  How Many Neurons for Reading?
  Simulating the Reader's Cortex
  Cortical Biases That Shape Reading
  Ch. 4. Inventing Reading
  Universal Features of Writing Systems
  Golden Section for Writing Systems
  Artificial Signs and Natural Shapes
  Prehistoric Precursors of Writing
  From Counting to Writing
  Limits of Pictography
  Alphabet: A Great Leap Forward
  Vowels: The Mothers of Reading
  Ch. 5. Learning to Read
  Birth of a Future Reader
  Three Steps for Reading
  Becoming Aware of Phonemes
  Graphemes and Phonemes: A Chicken and Egg Problem
  Orthographic Stage
  Brain of a Young Reader
  Illiterate Brain
  What Does Reading Make Us Lose?
  When Letters Have Colors
  From Neuroscience to Education
  Reading Wars
  Myth of Whole-Word Reading
  Inefficiency of the Whole-Language Approach
  Few Suggestions for Educators
  Ch. 6. Dyslexic Brain
  What Is Dyslexia?
  Phonological Trouble
  Biological Unity of Dyslexia
  Prime Suspect: The Left Temporal Lobe
  Neuronal Migrations
  Dyslexic Mouse
  Genetics of Dyslexia
  Overcoming Dyslexia
  Ch. 7. Reading and Symmetry
  When Animals Mix Left and Right
  Evolution and Symmetry
  Symmetry Perception and Brain Symmetry
  Dr. Orton's Modern Followers
  Pros and Cons of a Symmetrical Brain
  Single-Neuron Symmetry
  Symmetrical Connections
  Dormant Symmetry
  Breaking the Mirror
  Broken Symmetry ... or Hidden Symmetry?
  Symmetry, Reading, and Neuronal Recycling
  Surprising Case of Mirror Dyslexia
  Ch. 8. Toward a Culture of Neurons
  Resolving the Reading Paradox
  Universality of Cultural Forms
  Neuronal Recycling and Cerebral Modules
  Toward a List of Cultural Invariants
  Why Are We the Only Cultural Species?
  Uniquely Human Plasticity?
  Reading Other Minds
  Global Neuronal Workspace
  Conclusion. Future of Reading.