Cognitive neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf on what reading does to the brain

Maryanne Wolf is a cognitive neuroscientist who conducts research on “what the brain does when it reads and why some children and adults have greater difficulty learning how to read than others”. She has written some fascinating books including “Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain” and “Reader come home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World”. In this podcast Prof Wolf speaks passionately on reading and why, among other things, it needs to be introduced to kids early in their lives. And as adults, what can we do to rewire our brain circuits that may have been frayed with the advent of digital media.

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Cognitive neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf on what reading does to the brain is an episode from The Point Blank Show by Indicast.

This episode is 60:00 long.

This episode was published on Jun 22, 2024.

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