Over the past few decades, reading has become an inseparable part of our lives. We stopped noticing how much we read and write, and we hardly ever think about how we do it. Stanislas Deane, the world’s leading French neurobiologist of cognition, seriously thought about this and carried out large-scale research into the processes of forming reading and writing skills.
In this book, Deane answers questions related to reading deficits, methods of teaching this skill, reading and writing disorders, how perception works with different writing systems, and other important aspects. He also provides recommendations on teaching children to read. Stanislas Deane’s research is a step toward more conscious reading—understanding how symbols on paper turn into new worlds and meanings in our minds, right here and now.