The Mind's Eye
Author: Sacks, Oliver
ISBN: 9781447234999
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Publisher,Pan Macmillan
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Format, Paperback
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No. of Pages, 272
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This 2010 New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year from neurologist Oliver Sacks—who also gave us Hallucinations, Musicophilia, and Awakenings—introduces us to people who have re-learned to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what might seem indispensable senses and abilities. Lilian, for example, is a concert pianist who became unable to read music and was eventually unable even to recognize everyday objects; Sue, a neurobiologist, saw with only one eye at a time until she suddenly acquired 3-D vision in midlife. And Pat, following a stroke, became an energized, active member of her community despite the fact that she could no longer utter a sentence. Sacks explores surprising sensorial paradoxes—people who can see perfectly well but cannot recognize their own children, for example, or blind people who navigate by "tongue vision"—while considering such fundamental questions as: How do we see? How do we think? How important is internal imagery, or vision, for that matter? And why is it that, although writing is only 5,000 years old, humans have a seemingly innate potential for reading? "Sacks the doctor once again dramatizes the most strange and thrilling scientific and cultural issue of our time—the nature of the human mind—through the simple act of telling stories."—Literary Review
