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literacy partially displaces prior functions
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept
“Literacy *partially displaces* prior functions”
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literacy produces left-hemisphere specialisation for language processing
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept
“Literacy produces left-hemisphere specialisation for language processing”
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literacy remodels left occipitotemporal cortex
literacy partially restructures the visual system itself
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept
“Dehaene's work (see above) confirms that literacy partially restructures the visual system itself”
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Literacy produces left-hemisphere specialisation for language processing
literacy remodels left occipitotemporal cortex
Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground"
“literacy itself physically remodels left occipitotemporal cortex”
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The neural recycling hypothesis and the visual word form area are key components of reading in the brain
Wolf and Dehaene largely do not credit McLuhan.
Deep Research Pass: "The Medium Becomes the Ground"
“Wolf and Dehaene largely do not.”
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These are things people say about Stanislas Dehaene 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
"Literacy physically restructures the brain"
Asserted by McLuhan · 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
"literate populations think differently from oral ones"
Asserted by McLuhan · 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 ↗
Timeline see standalone →
2009
2009
publication of Reading in the Brain
2010
2010
Dehaene et al. published research