Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf

Best quotes:

"first three grades a child “learns to read,” and in the next grades the child “reads to learn.”"

"Modern cognitive neuroscience reinforces what Huey suspected—how vast, how complex, and how widely distributed are the brain’s networks that underlie even one half second of reading."

"We now know that when we read in English, we actually see about fourteen or fifteen letters to the right of our fixed focus,"

"Because we use foveal and parafoveal information, we always have a preview of what lies ahead."

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