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“From words to brain” covers just that – how our brains process the stories we read and the steps and processes that occur as we do so.
Reading is a complex cognitive process, this essay/story conveys it easily. Using the tale ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, we’re lead through a series of explanations of how we read, but most importantly what’s happening in our brains when we do so. From the first steps of reading, (e.g. recognition of a letter/visual processing), to how authors manage to evoke empath ...more
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Dec 18, 2010
Livia Blackburne
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Technically, I didn't actually read this, cuz it's in Italian. But I wrote it, so I think I know what it says...
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Livia Blackburn’s ebook From Words to Brain is a fascinating bit of reading… about reading.
For those of us from literate societies, reading is a given. It’s easy. It even seems effortless. But the processes going on in our brain while we read are actually quite complex. We never even imagine what has to happen to turn the visual input of letters on a page or screen into a narrative which entertains, excites, frightens or pleases us while challenging or reinforcing moral values.
But it happens. In ...more
Consueto appuntamento bisettimanale in cui presento le nuove uscite e cerco di spiegare perchè le ho scelte. Come al solito, prendetela con beneficio di inventario: in fondo è l'oste che parla del suo vino.
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Sempre in tema profondamente bibliofilo, il saggio di Livia Blackburne esplora quello che le neuroscienze sanno della lettura o, per dirla da un altro punto di vista, racconta la scrittura creativa esaminata attraverso il modo in cui il nostro cervello elabora gli escamotage narrativi. Li ...more
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Sempre in tema profondamente bibliofilo, il saggio di Livia Blackburne esplora quello che le neuroscienze sanno della lettura o, per dirla da un altro punto di vista, racconta la scrittura creativa esaminata attraverso il modo in cui il nostro cervello elabora gli escamotage narrativi. Li ...more
A fascinating essay describing how our brains process reading and covering a wide variety of topics along the way. How do marks on a piece of paper turn into images in our minds? How did interpreting these marks become a man-made reflex? How does a story provide a lesson or moral? Do people get the same message from the same story? This is the sort of subject where all the answers give rise to more questions and this very readable book takes you through a lot of them in quite a short space, usin
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Jun 26, 2011
Maria Skywalker
marked it as to-read
