My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of creative thought when we read but also the development and strengthening of capacities like empathy and… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we connect thought to what we read - critical analysis, analogical reasoning, how we infer from the text, how… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Every opportunity to practice is a gift to the developing reader. Practice, practice, practice, in every form and medium! — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share
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
