Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read - Stanislas Dehaene

Category: Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Mental Health Psychology

Written by Stanislas Dehaene
Read by James Gillies
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
Release date: 12-17-25

“Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work.”–Oliver Sacks, M.D.

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 How We Learn, 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 how we process languages, and takes us into a new appreciation of the brain and its wondrous capacity to adapt. According to The Wall Street Journal, Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read “reveals how decades of low-tech experiments and high-tech brain-imaging studies have unwrapped the mystery of reading and revealed its component parts. . . . [Dehaene] never oversimplifies; he takes the time to tell the whole story, and he tells it in a literate way.”