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020 | _a9780330508902 (PB) | ||
041 | _aeng | ||
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_a155.9 _bSAC |
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100 | _aSacks, Oliver | ||
245 | _aThe Mind's Eye | ||
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_bPicador _c2010 _aLondon |
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300 | _axii, 260p. | ||
505 | _a1. Sight reading 2. Recalled to life 3. A man of letters 4. Face-blind 5. Stereo Sue 6. Persistence of vision: a journal 7. The mind's eye | ||
520 | _aIncludes 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 | ||
650 | _aPsychological Aspects | ||
650 | _aCommunicative Disorder | ||
650 | _aCognition Disorder | ||
690 | _aGeneral | ||
942 | _cBK | ||
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