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Proust and the Squid
Maryanne Wolf
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Discover how your brain rewires itself to read, in this groundbreaking exploration of neuroscience and literature. Wolf reveals the shocking 32-million-word gap between privileged and underprivileged children by age 5, forever changing how we understand literacy in the digital age.

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When Your Brain Learns What It Was Never Meant to Do

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A child sits on a parent's lap, watching fingers trace across a page, and something extraordinary happens. Those meaningless squiggles suddenly transform into stories, ideas, entire worlds. Yet here's the startling truth: your brain contains no genetic blueprint for reading. No evolutionary pressure shaped neural pathways specifically for decoding text. Reading is humanity's most successful hack of our own biology-a feat of cognitive repurposing that transformed civilization itself. Within a mere 500 milliseconds, our brains perform neurological gymnastics, connecting visual recognition systems with language centers through pathways that were never designed to communicate. This isn't just remarkable-it's miraculous. And understanding how we accomplish this impossible task reveals everything about human adaptability, the hidden architecture of learning, and what we risk losing in our digital age.

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