Reading In The Brain - Introduction and Chapter 1 by GABRIELA DIAS PINSDORF

Intro

gabrielapinsdorf2 — 2024-08-15 11:55:50 UTC

p. 5 - Yet, neither the hypothesis of an intelligent creator nor that of slow emergence through natural selection seems to provide a plausible explanation for the origins of reading.

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nataliagferreira — 2024-08-15 18:36:26 UTC

"We take delight in reading Nabokov and Shakespeare using a primate brain originally designed for life in the African savanna". (Introduction, p. 4)

Cap. 1

gabrielapinsdorf2 — 2024-08-15 19:50:24 UTC

p. 26 - Some thought that the transformation from print to sound was essential - written language, they argued, is just a by-product of spoken language [...] For others, however, [...] reading efficency was based on a direct lexical route [...]. Nowadays, a consensus has emerged: in adults, both reading routes exist and both are simultaneously active.

Sobre a regularidade do sistema de escrita, a possibilidade de reforma ortográfica do inglês e a concepção do sujeito bilíngue que se apropria dele:

gabrielapinsdorf2 — 2024-08-15 20:55:37 UTC

p. 37 - [...] We owe it to our children, who waste hundreads of hours at this cruel game. Furthermore, some of them may never recover, handicapped for life by dyslexia or simply because they were raised in underprivileged or multiligual families. These are the real victims of our archaic spelling system.

Chap. 1 On Reading

suelensilva6 — 2024-09-06 16:50:52 UTC

Page 11 - Two major parallel processing routes eventually come into play: the phonological route, and the lexical route.

Page 12 - Thus we must have a deciphering algorithm, or a processing recipe akin to automatic character recognition software, which takes the pixels on a page as input and produces the identity of the words output. To accomplish this feat, our brain hosts a sophisticated set of decoding operations whose principles are only beginning to be understood.

Introduction

suelensilva6 — 2024-09-06 16:52:44 UTC

"The new Science of Reading [...] underlines why early research in Reading erroneously supported the whole-word approach - and how recent research on the brain's Reading networks proves it was wrong."