Abstract
Primed for Reading
Highlights
Dehaene does an excellent job explaining how reading works at both the neurobiological and cognitive levels
Stanislaus Dehaene details how cognitive abilities evolved for other purposes were co-opted for reading, how these abilities are instantiated in the brain, and how they constrain the cultural evolution of writing systems
Reading in the Brain explains, with exceptional clarity, how machinery evolved for other purposes allows us to read and why this machinery constrains the form of writing systems
Summary
Dehaene does an excellent job explaining how reading works at both the neurobiological and cognitive levels. A series of scribes, priests, and printers working over a few thousand years gradually devised the writing systems that give rise to this amazing skill.
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