Fixing my gaze
Subtitle: a scientist's journey into seeing in three dimensions
By: Susan R. Barry.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780465009138
Subjects: Barry, Susan R. -- Health; Strabismus -- Patients -- United States -- Biography; Depth perception; Behavioral optometry; Visual training; Neurobiologists -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: "When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she took an unforgettable trip to Manhattan. As she emerged from the dim light of the subway into the sunshine, she saw a view of the city that she had witnessed many times in the past but now saw in an astonishingly new way. 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. 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. After half a century of perceiving her surroundings as flat and compressed, on that day she was seeing Manhattan in stereo depth for first time in her life"--Page 2 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stereoblind; title: Mixed-up beginnings; title: School crossings; title: Knowing where to look; title: Fixing my gaze; title: The space between; title: When two eyes see as one; title: Nature and nurture; title: Vision and revision.