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

Barry, Susan R.

 
9780465020737: Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0465020739 ISBN 13: 9780465020737
Verlag: Basic Books, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465020739
ISBN 13 
9780465020737
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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