“Wolf restores our awe of the human brain—its adaptability, its creativity, and its ability to connect with other minds through a procession of silly squiggles.” — San Francisco Chronicle How do people learn to read and write—and how has the development of these skills transformed the brain and the world itself ? Neuropsychologist and child development expert Maryann Wolf answe...(展开全部)

Anyone who reads is bound to wonder, at least occasionally, about how those funny squiggles on a page magically turn into "Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang" or "After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain." Where did this unlikely skill called reading come from? What happens in our brain when our eyes scan a line of...(展开全部)

Anyone who reads is bound to wonder, at least occasionally, about how those funny squiggles on a page magically turn into "Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang" or "After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain." Where did this unlikely skill called reading come from? What happens in our brain when our eyes scan a line of...(展开全部)

“Wolf restores our awe of the human brain—its adaptability, its creativity, and its ability to connect with other minds through a procession of silly squiggles.” — San Francisco Chronicle How do people learn to read and write—and how has the development of these skills transformed the brain and the world itself ? Neuropsychologist and child development expert Maryann Wolf answe...(展开全部)

玛丽安娜•沃尔夫（Maryanne Wolf） ★美国塔夫茨大学儿童发展心理学教授，阅读与语言研究中心主任。 ★曾获富布莱特奖，并因出色的教学和科研工作，获得美国心理学会、美国国家儿童健康与人类发展研究所以及国际阅读障碍者协会颁发的奖项。 ★《普鲁斯特与乌贼》获得玛格•梅尔克年度最佳阅读图书奖。 ★《华盛顿邮报》称赞她“说的任何事都具有一定的意义，她还真正预言了计算机文化对‘阅读思维’的影响”。

玛丽安娜•沃尔夫（Maryanne Wolf） ★美国塔夫茨大学儿童发展心理学教授，阅读与语言研究中心主任。 ★曾获富布莱特奖，并因出色的教学和科研工作，获得美国心理学会、美国国家儿童健康与人类发展研究所以及国际阅读障碍者协会颁发的奖项。 ★《普鲁斯特与乌贼》获得玛格•梅尔克年度最佳阅读图书奖。 ★《华盛顿邮报》称赞她“说的任何事都具有一定的意义，她还真正预言了计算机文化对‘阅读思维’的影响”。

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From Scientific American The notion that the brain and central nervous system are made of circuits that process stimuli and evoke bodily responses is a founding principle of neuroscience. And we humans believe that once we understand every neural pathway, we will be able to predict a motor response to every sensory input—from feeling the tug of a fish on a hook to catching your...(展开全部)

In this provocative book, Paul Glimcher argues that economic theory may provide an alternative to the classical Cartesian model of the brain and behavior. Glimcher argues that Cartesian dualism operates from the false premise that the reflex is able to describe behavior in the real world that animals inhabit. A mathematically rich cognitive theory, he claims, could solve the mo...(展开全部)