An endless story of reading. Proust, squid and science of the reading brain. Wolf M.

A person was not born for reading, but this skill changed the trajectory of our development. The ability of a person to write and read allows you to fix history, develops imagination, brings up empathy, expands our ideas about the world around him, and even gives it new, bright colors. Why and how this happens?

The book of an outstanding neurobiologist Marianne Wolf is devoted to the cognitive mechanisms that underlie reading processes. From the Sumerian cuneiform to modern digital texts - Wolf immerses us in the history of reading development. The author explains in detail and accessible what is happening in the brain of every person when he reads or only masters the reading skill, how we are changing what we read, and when the brain is not able to learn to read.

Together with this book, the reader will go on a fascinating journey on the history and neurobiology of reading - one of the most remarkable "inventions" of mankind.