Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
Barry, Susan R.
ISBN 10: 0465020739 ISBN 13: 9780465020737
Published by Basic Books, 2010
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This is a profoundly smart science book and an inspiring memoir about change that is detailed and complex, quirky and engaging. Readers will connect with Sue's struggles, discoveries, and triumphs. When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she took an unforgettable trip to Manhattan. She saw the city in an astonishingly new way. With each glance, she experienced the deliriously novel sense of immersion in a three dimensional world. Barry had been cross-eyed and stereoblind since early infancy. Scientists have long believed that the brain is malleable only during a 'critical period' in early childhood, and that there was no way she could begin to see in three dimensions. But after intensive training, she was able to accomplish what other scientists and even she herself had once considered impossible. A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change, "Fixing My Gaze" describes Barry's remarkable journey and celebrates the joyous pleasure of our senses.
About the Author: Susan R. Barry is a professor of neurobiology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Mount Holyoke College. She speaks regularly to scientists, eye doctors, and educators on the topic of neuronal plasticity. She lives in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
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Title: Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into ...
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good