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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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The phonetic alphabet is ~5,400 years old
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept
“reading is only ~5,400 years old”
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These are things people say about VWFA 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 alphabet biases the brain toward visual-linear-sequential processing"
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 ↗
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2010
2010
Dehaene et al. published research
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Stanislas Dehaeneother