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The Alphabet and the Brain

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    Chapter 1 General Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Gene-Culture Coevolution: Culture and Biology in Darwinian Perspective
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    Chapter 3 Learning and Selection in the Nervous System
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    Chapter 4 Neuronal Group Selection: A Basis for Categorization by the Nervous System
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    Chapter 5 Writing: The Invention and the Dream
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    Chapter 6 The Origin of the Greek Alphabet
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    Chapter 7 Relationships Between Speech and Writing Systems in Ancient Alphabets and Syllabaries
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    Chapter 8 Graphic Systems, Phonic Systems, and Linguistic Representations
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    Chapter 9 Canons of Alphabetic Change
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    Chapter 10 Logical Principles Underlying the Layout of Greek Orthography
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    Chapter 11 The Material Conditions of the Lateralization of the Ductus
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    Chapter 12 Psychology of Literacy: East and West
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    Chapter 13 The Biology of Writing
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    Chapter 14 Language Processing: A Neuroanatomical Primer
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    Chapter 15 Orthography, Reading, and Cerebral Functions
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    Chapter 16 Literacy and the Brain
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    Chapter 17 The Processing of Japanese Kana and Kanji Characters
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    Chapter 18 The Bilateral Cooperative Model of Reading
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    Chapter 19 Right Hemisphere Literacy in the Ancient World
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    Chapter 20 The Role of Vowels in Alphabetic Writing
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    Chapter 21 Critical Brain Processes Involved in Deciphering the Greek Alphabet
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    Chapter 22 Mind, Media, and Memory: The Archival and Epistemic Functions of Written Text
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    Chapter 23 General Conclusion
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Title
The Alphabet and the Brain
Published by
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, January 1988
DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-01093-8
ISBNs
978-3-66-201095-2, 978-3-66-201093-8
Editors

Derrick de Kerckhove, Charles Lumsden

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Greece 1 6%
Unknown 15 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 38%
Student > Bachelor 2 13%
Professor 2 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 6%
Other 2 13%
Unknown 2 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 25%
Social Sciences 3 19%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 6%
Philosophy 1 6%
Psychology 1 6%
Other 3 19%
Unknown 3 19%