Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions - Couverture souple

Barry, Susan R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0465020739 ISBN 13 : 9780465020737

Editeur : Basic Books, 2010

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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 has been featured on NPR and in a New Yorker article by renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks entitled"Stereo Sue.&rdquo She and her husband have two grown children and live in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0465020739
• ISBN 13: 9780465020737
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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