QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Sun 6th July 2008, 9:52pm)
Forthcoming …
Jon
Well, I won't try to cache you up on
everything I did on my summer and solstice vacations, but I did just finish reading a fascinating book by
Maryanne Wolf of Tufts University that bears on the general subject of this thread, so I was thinking that the eblogatory book report might be apt.
The title of the book is
Proust and the Squid — now there's a hook if I ever read one — subtitled
The Story and Science of the Reading Brain — still a teaser but a bit more of a clue. It's a little difficult to encompass the scope of the work in a single line, but let me give it the old collage try — Cognitive Neuroscience of Writing Systems and the Brains that Read and Misread Them, Both, with Ontogeny Recapping Phylogeny, More or Less, and Prospects for the Future of Humane Information Processing. But I still like her title better.
A lot of other hwk to do today, so I'll go collect my notes and get back to you later.
Jon Awbrey