The Neural Basis of Reading

by Morten Kringelbach and Peter Hansen

Reading is a unique human ability that has become very pivotal for functioning in our world today. As modern societies rely extensively on literacy skills, and as reading disabilities have profound personal, economic and social consequences, it is surprising that we have a very underdeveloped scientific understanding of the neural basis of reading and visual word recognition in the normal brain. A better understanding of normal reading processes could...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019530036X
• ISBN13: 9780195300369
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"