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Mind Reading

As reading is a relatively recent invention, dating to some 5,000 to 10,000 years ago, our brains couldn’t evolve to read. Stanislas Dehaene, a distinguished French cognitive scientist, has helped unravel the mystery....

View original story on http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/books/review/Gopnik-t.html?ref=science
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ritontriton : "This theory really amazed me, but may be I didn't grab the fact (yes I'm french, so I may have missed some meanings.....). I don't understand this kind of "T preform" recognition... Ok, we may have neuron 's preform recognition shapes, but the article doesn't talk about it. Who read the book and could help me please ? (probably me in one or two months....° Neither the article speak about chinese alphabet..... Ok, that's not a "pure" alphabet, that's phonetic, and not independants letters. But it lies the sames questions.... I guess... A form is a form.... In this case, where chinese people could have preform such complicated letters ? I probably miss something in the article........ "
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