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Barry, Susan R.

 
9780465020737: Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
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ISBN 10: 0465020739 ISBN 13: 9780465020737
Editorial: Basic Books, 2010

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

Susan R. Barry is a professor of neurobiology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Mount Holyoke College. She speaks regularly to scientists, eye doctors, and educators on the topic of neuronal plasticity. She has been featured on NPR and in a New Yorker article by renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks entitled"Stereo Sue.” She and her husband have two grown children and live in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

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Editorial
Basic Books
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0465020739
ISBN 13 
9780465020737
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
272
Contacto del fabricante
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