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The mind's eye / Oliver Sacks.

by Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015,

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Communicative disorders -- Popular works.

Cognition disorders -- Popular works.

Face perception -- Popular works.

Perception -- Popular works.

Neurology -- Anecdotes.

Publisher Info:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

xii, 263 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Sight reading -- Recalled to life -- A man of letters -- Face-blind -- Stereo Sue -- Persistence of vision: a journal -- The mind's eye.

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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