"There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and 'learning' is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it's more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within . . . His explanation of the basic machinery of the brain is an excellent primer."
--The New York Times Book Review
"[An] expert overview of learning . . . Never mind our opposable thumb, upright posture, fire, tools, or language; it is education that enabled humans to conquer the world . . . Dehaene's fourth insightful exploration of neuroscience will pay dividends for attentive readers."
–Kirkus Reviews
"[Dehaene] rigorously examines our remarkable capacity for learning. The baby brain is especially awesome and not a 'blank slate' . . . Dehaene's portrait of the human brain is fascinating."
–Booklist "A richly instructive [book] for educators, parents, and others interested in how to most effectively foster the pursuit of knowledge."
–Publishers Weekly Praise for
Reading in the Brain "Splendid...Dehaene reveals how decades of low-tech experiments and high-tech brain-imaging studies have unwrapped the mystery of reading and revealed its component parts...A pleasure to read. [Dehaene] never oversimplifies; he takes the time to tell the whole story, and he tells it in a literate way."
–The Wall Street Journal "Masterful...a delight to read and scientifically precise."
–Nature Praise for Consciousness and the Brain "Ambitious . . . Dehaene offers nothing less than a blueprint for brainsplaining one of the world's deepest mysteries. . . . [A] fantastic book."
–The Washington Post "Dehaene is a maestro of the unconscious."
–Scientific American Mind "Brilliant... Essential reading for those who want to experience the excitement of the search for the mind in the brain."
–Nature