Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention Stanislas Dehaene, . . Viking, $27.95 (388pp) ISBN 978-0-670-02110-9 ...

This reading area of the brain — what Stanislas Dehaene calls "the brain's letterbox" (located on the edge of the left occipito-temporal fissure) in his excellent new book devoted to this topic ...

Stanislas Dehaene, a distinguished French cognitive scientist, has helped unravel that mystery. His gifts, on display in “Reading in the Brain,” include an aptitude for complex experiments and ...

Books & the Arts; April 5, 2010; Reading on the Brain Reading on the Brain. In the history of reading, does progress hinge on the weird, obsolete or eccentric among us?

Neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene argues that “the human brain never evolved for reading. . . . The only evolution was cultural—reading itself progressively evolved toward a form adapted to our ...

DEHAENE: Both of my books, “The Number Sense” and “Reading in the Brain,” point to the fact that young children are more competent than we think. Learning is not “the furnishing of the ...

STANISLAS DEHAENE: One of my longtime interests concerns how the human brain is changed by education and culture. Learning to read seems to be one of the more important changes that we impose on ...

Reading is a human invention, made possible by pre-existing brain systems devoted to representing shapes, sound, and speech. Skip to main content Mobile Navigation. Psychology Today.

Reading is a human invention, made possible by pre-existing brain systems devoted to representing shapes, sound, and speech. Skip to main content Mobile Navigation. Psychology Today.