Fixing My Gaze
A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions
New York : Basic Books, [2009]
Format: Book
Description: xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she took an unforgettable trip to Manhattan. As she emerged from the dim light of the subway into the sunshine, she saw a view of the city that she had witnessed many times in the past but now saw in an astonishingly new way. Skyscrapers on street corners appeared to loom out toward her like the bows of giant ships. Tree branches projected upward and outward, enclosing and commanding palpable volumes of space. Leaves created intricate mosaics in 3D. 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. After half a century of perceiving her surroundings as flat and compressed, on that day she was seeing Manhattan in stereo depth for first time in her life"--Page 2 of cover.
Contents:
Stereoblind -- Mixed-up beginnings -- School crossings -- Knowing where to look -- Fixing my gaze -- The space between -- When two eyes see as one -- Nature and nurture -- Vision and revision.
Subjects:
Barry, Susan R. -- Health.
Barry, Susan R.
Strabismus -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Depth perception.
Behavioral optometry.
Visual training.
Neurobiologists -- United States -- Biography.
Barry, Susan R. -- Health.
Barry, Susan R.
Strabismus -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Depth perception.
Behavioral optometry.
Visual training.
Neurobiologists -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780465009138
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Barry, Susan | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-236) and index.