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Author Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.

Title The mind's eye / Oliver Sacks.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  RC423 .S23 2010    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note "A Borzoi book" -- T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index.
Contents Sight reading -- Recalled to life -- A man of letters -- Face-blind -- Stereo Sue -- Persistence of vision: a journal -- The mind's eye.
Summary 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.
Subject Communicative disorders -- Popular works.
Communicative disorders.
Genre/Form Popular works.
Subject Cognition disorders -- Popular works.
Cognition disorders.
Face perception -- Popular works.
Face perception.
Perception -- Popular works.
Perception.
Neurology -- Anecdotes.
Neurology.
Genre/Form Anecdotes.
Anecdotes.
ISBN 9780307272089
0307272087