The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read deeply changed the very structure of that circuit's connections, which rewired the brain, which transformed the… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Learning to read, for the brain, is a lot like an amateur ringmaster first learning how to organise a three-ring circus. He wants to begin individually and then synchronise all the performances. It only happens after all the separate acts… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and least cognitively… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“There are few more powerful mirrors of the human brain's astonishing ability to rearrange itself to learn a new intellectual function than the act… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
When we have any function, whether it's language or vision or cognitive functions like memory, we aren't dealing with a straight line to the… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Every opportunity to practice is a gift to the developing reader. Practice, practice, practice, in every form and medium! — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new 'reading circuit' afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting to unfold.… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
