Reading in the Brain
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"Reading in the Brain" is a scientific book by cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene that explains how the human brain learns to read and what this reveals about language, vision, and learning.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reading in the Brain canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11179234 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reading in the Brain Context triple: [Stanislas Dehaene, notableWork, Reading in the Brain]
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A.
The Human Brain
The Human Brain is a popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains the structure, function, and mysteries of the human brain for a general audience.
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B.
How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works is a popular science book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores human thought and behavior through the lenses of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
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C.
The Computational Brain
The Computational Brain is an influential book that explores how principles of computation and neural networks can explain brain function and cognition.
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D.
The Tell-Tale Brain
The Tell-Tale Brain is a popular neuroscience book by V. S. Ramachandran that explores how unusual brain disorders illuminate the neural basis of human perception, self, and consciousness.
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E.
book The Elephant in the Brain
The Elephant in the Brain is a non-fiction book that explores the hidden, often self-serving motives behind human behavior and social institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reading in the Brain Target entity description: "Reading in the Brain" is a scientific book by cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene that explains how the human brain learns to read and what this reveals about language, vision, and learning.
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A.
The Human Brain
The Human Brain is a popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains the structure, function, and mysteries of the human brain for a general audience.
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B.
How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works is a popular science book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores human thought and behavior through the lenses of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
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C.
The Computational Brain
The Computational Brain is an influential book that explores how principles of computation and neural networks can explain brain function and cognition.
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D.
The Tell-Tale Brain
The Tell-Tale Brain is a popular neuroscience book by V. S. Ramachandran that explores how unusual brain disorders illuminate the neural basis of human perception, self, and consciousness.
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E.
book The Elephant in the Brain
The Elephant in the Brain is a non-fiction book that explores the hidden, often self-serving motives behind human behavior and social institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction book ⓘ scientific book ⓘ |
| author | Stanislas Dehaene ⓘ |
| authorAffiliation |
Collège de France
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INSERM ⓘ |
| covers |
brain imaging studies of reading
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cross-linguistic differences in reading ⓘ development of reading in children ⓘ reading disorders ⓘ |
| discusses |
educational implications of reading research
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evolutionary constraints on reading ⓘ impact of writing systems on the brain ⓘ orthographic processing ⓘ phonological processing in reading ⓘ |
| explains |
differences between alphabetic and logographic scripts
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how literacy modifies brain circuits ⓘ how the human brain learns to read ⓘ neural basis of reading acquisition ⓘ |
| explores |
neural mechanisms of reading
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relationship between reading and language ⓘ relationship between reading and vision ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cortical networks for reading
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visual word form area ⓘ |
| genre |
cognitive neuroscience
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popular science ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation | cognitive neuroscientist ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
dyslexia
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human brain ⓘ language processing ⓘ learning ⓘ literacy acquisition ⓘ neuroscience of reading ⓘ reading ⓘ visual word recognition ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| proposes | neuronal recycling hypothesis ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
educators
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general audience ⓘ psychologists ⓘ students of neuroscience ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Reading in the Brain Description of subject: "Reading in the Brain" is a scientific book by cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene that explains how the human brain learns to read and what this reveals about language, vision, and learning.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.