Reading in the Brain

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Quoted author Maryanne Wolf seems to be saying something that is at least partly contrary to what is said in the new book Reading in the Brain http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Brain-Science-Evolution-Invent... by Stanislas Dehaene. He is very up to date on the best research on reading acquisition in children and adult reading performance in countries around the world with different writing systems, and he has some very interesting suggestions in his book about how an electronic device for screen reading could actually SPEED UP human reading with optimal, brain-research-informed design, by presenting the words of the text in rapid succession (up to the word size limit enforced by eye fixation and focusing ability). Stanislas Dehaene has great comments in his book about the right way to teach reading to children and, as one reviewer notes, "Re…