Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions
Susan R. Barry, "Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions"
English | 2010 | ISBN-10: 0465020739, 0465009131 | 272 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
English | 2010 | ISBN-10: 0465020739, 0465009131 | 272 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
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.