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The mind's eye / Oliver Sacks

By:

Sacks, Oliver, (1933 - 2015)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 263 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780307272089

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

616.8 SAC

LOC classification:

RC423 .S23 2010

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.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	616.8 SAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		028591

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"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.

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