Reading in the Brain

<b>Brings together the cognitive the cultural and the neurological in an elegant compelling narrative. A revelatory work.--Oliver Sacks M.D. </b> <p/> 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 author of <i>How We Learn</i> 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.