The mind's eye
By: Oliver Sacks
Edition: 1st large print ed.
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780739378038
Subjects: Communicative disorders; Popular works; Perception; Cognition disorders; Face perception
Description: In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities : the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. -- P.[4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sight reading; title: Recalled to life; title: A man of letters; title: Face-blind; title: Stereo Sue; title: Persistence of vision: a journal; title: The mind's eye.