76 Quotes by Maryanne Wolf

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.

The brain is plastic its whole life span.

The brain is constantly adapting.

As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically rich society.

I have always worried about who can read, who can't, who doesn't, and the great, life-altering consequences hidden within those distinctions.

I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience.

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.

The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to developing whole new pathways in the cerebral evolution of our species.