| Description |
xvi, 455 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Gene-culture coevolution : culture and biology in Darwinian perspective / Charles J. Lumsden -- Learning and selection in the nervous system/ Jean-Pierre Changeux -- Neuronal group selection : a basis for categorization by the nervous system / Leif H. Finkel -- Writing : the invention and the dream / Claude Hagège -- The origin of the Greek alphabet / Joseph Naveh -- Relationships between speech and writing systems in ancient alphabets and syllabaries / Robert Lafont -- Graphic systems, phonic systems, and linguistic representations / Parth M. Bhatt -- Canons of alphabetic change / William C. Watt -- Logical principles underlying the layout of Greek orthography / Derrick de Kerckhove -- The material conditions of the lateralization of the ductus / Colette Sirat |
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Psychology of literacy : East and West / Insup Taylor -- The biology of writing / André Roch Lecours and Jean-Luc Nespoulous -- Language processing : a neuroanatomical primer / Patrica Ellen Grant -- Orthography, reading, and cerebral functions / Ovid J.L. Tzeng and Daisy L. Hung -- Literacy and the brain / André Roch Lecours ... [et al.] -- The processing of Japanese Kana and Kanji characters / Edward A. Jones and Chisato Aoki -- The bilateral cooperative model of reading / M. Martin Taylor -- Right hemisphere literacy in the ancient world / John R. Skoyles -- The role of vowels in alphabetic writing / Baudouin Jurdant -- Critical brain processes involved in deciphering the Greek alphabet / Derrick de Kerckhove -- Mind, media, and memory : the archival and epistemic functions of written text / David R. Olson |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Alphabet.
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Alphabets.
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Cerebral dominance.
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Neuropsychology.
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Laterality.
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Writing.
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Dominance, Cerebral.
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| Author |
De Kerckhove, Derrick.
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Lumsden, Charles J., 1949-
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| LC no. |
87023351 |
| ISBN |
0387181229 |
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