- How does the brain receive and interpret information from the eye? What happens when this process is disrupted? *
In The Mind's Eye, neurologist Oliver Sachs tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and connect with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the ability to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, and the sense of sight.For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world - and the “mind's eye” is evidence of the many ways we, as humans, can rise to that challenge.
A book full of wisdom, humor, extraordinary human stories, and reflections on how we perceive the world… it concludes with a fascinating discussion about blindness and how blind people develop their visual concepts.
