The mind's eye
Book 2299/Completed: 1/8/2011
Author: | Sacks, Oliver W. | Edition: | 1st ed. | Published: | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. | Description: | xii, 263 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. | LC Call No.: | RC423.S23 2010 | Dewey No.: | 616.85/5 22 | ISBN: | 9780307272089 | | 0307272087 | Notes: | "A Borzoi book" -- T.p. verso. | | Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-252) and index. | | Sight reading -- Recalled to life -- A man of letters -- Face-blind -- Stereo Sue -- Persistence of vision: a journal -- The mind's eye. | | Includes stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and faculties: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, and the sense of sight. This book is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation, and it provides a whole new perspective on the power of language and communication, as we try to imagine what it is to perceive through another person's eyes, or another person's mind. | Subjects: | Communicative disorders -- Popular works. | | Cognition disorders -- Popular works. | | Face perception -- Popular works. | | Perception -- Popular works. | | Neurology -- Anecdotes. |
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