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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions Paperback - 2010

by Susan R. Barry; Foreword by Oliver Sacks

A neuroscientist tells the remarkable story of how she rewired her own brain--and came to see the world anew.


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A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the sense of immersion in a three dimensional world for the first time. Skyscrapers on street corners appeared to loom out toward her like the bows of giant ships. Tree branches projected upward and outward, enclosing and commanding palpable volumes of space. Leaves created intricate mosaics in 3D. Barry had been cross-eyed and stereoblind since early infancy. After half a century of perceiving her surroundings as flat and compressed, on that day she saw the city of Manhattan in stereo depth for first time in her life. As a neuroscientist, she understood just how extraordinary this transformation was, not only for herself but for the scientific understanding of the human brain. Scientists have long believed that the brain is malleable only during a critical period in early childhood. According to this theory, Barry's brain had organized itself when she was a baby to avoid double vision - and there was no way to rewire it as an adult. But Barry found an optometrist who prescribed a little-known program of vision therapy; after intensive training, Barry was ultimately able to accomplish what other scientists and even she herself had once considered impossible. Dubbed Stereo Sue by renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks, Susan Barry tells her own remarkable journey and celebrates the joyous pleasure of our senses.

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  • Title Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
  • Author Susan R. Barry; Foreword by Oliver Sacks
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Trade Pape
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York
  • Date 2010-08-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780465020737 / 0465020739
  • Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.5 x 1 in (20.96 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009008900
  • Dewey Decimal Code 617.762

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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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