| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) : illustrations |
| Note |
"A Borzoi book" -- Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-252) and index. |
| Contents |
Sight reading -- Recalled to life -- A man of letters -- Face-blind -- Stereo Sue -- Persistence of vision: a journal -- The mind's eye. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Communicative disorders -- Popular works.
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Cognition disorders -- Popular works.
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Face perception -- Popular works.
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Perception -- Popular works.
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Neurology -- Anecdotes.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sacks, Oliver W. Mind's eye. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010 9780307272089 (DLC) 2010012791 (OCoLC)505417145 |
| ISBN |
9780307594556 (electronic bk.) |
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0307594556 (electronic bk.) |
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