FILE ON MARYANNE WOLFPerson
Maryanne Wolf
literacy remodels left occipitotemporal cortex. literacy remodels left occipitotemporal cortex2.
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literacy remodels left occipitotemporal cortex
literacy remodels left occipitotemporal cortex
Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground"
“literacy itself physically remodels left occipitotemporal cortex”
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source
Wolf and Dehaene largely do not credit McLuhan.
Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground"
“Wolf and Dehaene largely do not.”
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source
Disputed — who says what, against what see standalone →
These are things people say about Maryanne Wolf that aren't settled fact — each one attributed to who's actually claiming it, so a claim never quietly passes as established just because it showed up in a document. Weigh it yourself.
Disputed
"web reading specifically restructures attention and reduces deep-reading capacity"
Asserted by Nicholas Carr · stance: pro
The evidence on file mostly supports this, but it's still someone's claim, not a settled fact.
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept ↗
Disputed
"the proposition that emotional dysregulation in ADHD is a *medium-substitution* problem"
Asserted by Maryanne Wolf · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground" ↗
Disputed
"the integration of (i) Lieberman's PFC–amygdala labeling circuit, (ii) Barkley's delayed inner-speech model of ADHD, and (iii) McLuhan's account of language as the originary autoamputating extension"
Asserted by Maryanne Wolf · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground" ↗
Disputed
"Habitual digital reading produces a shift toward skimming, "word-spotting," and cognitive impatience that erodes deep-reading circuitry"
Asserted by Maryanne Wolf · stance: pro
The evidence on file mostly supports this, but it's still someone's claim, not a settled fact.
Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground" ↗
Timeline see standalone →
2007
2007
publication of Proust and the Squid
2018
2018
publication of Reader, Come Home