Drawing on historical literary, and scientific sources, Wolf uses down to earth examples and warm anecdotes to illuminate complex ideas that culminate in an intriguing proposal for a bilateral reading brain.
Explores how the intellectual evolution of man was forever altered when, just a few thousand years ago, the human brain evolved enough to learn how to read and understand written words.
A developmental psychologist evaluates the ways in which reading and writing have transformed the human brain, in an anecdotal study that reveals the significant changes in evolutionary brain physiology throughout history.
