Books by Stanislas Dehaene
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review 1: Fascinating summary of current research into how the brain reads. From scientific investigations via various kinds of imaging such as MRI scanning, it is now possible to track which parts of the brain are handling aspects of activity that are required in order to perceive and un...
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review 1: Reading requires rapid and successive interpretations of small sets of visual marks (in alphabetic writing, no more than 5-7 letters per saccade) by neurons from several regions of the brain, interrogating the symbols until the most likely hypothesis of their meaning is establish...
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review 1: I started this book having read a few others on the same topic already this year. The new science of reading, introduction and opening chapter didn't disappoint and was a good way into the topic, asking the reader to consider the mystery of the reading ape. I'm intrigued by this ...