The Mind's Eye
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First edition.
Description: 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) : illustrations
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.
Contents:
Sight reading -- Recalled to life -- A man of letters -- Face-blind -- Stereo Sue -- Persistence of vision: a journal -- The mind's eye.
Subjects:
Communicative disorders -- Popular works.
Cognition disorders -- Popular works.
Face perception -- Popular works.
Perception -- Popular works.
Neurology -- Anecdotes.
Communicative disorders -- Popular works.
Cognition disorders -- Popular works.
Face perception -- Popular works.
Perception -- Popular works.
Neurology -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
9780307594556
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"A Borzoi book" -- Title page verso.
Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-252) and index.
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Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-252) and index.
Description based on print version record.