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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Susan R Barry |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan R Barry |
| ISBN: | 9780465009138 0465009131 |
| OCLC Number: | 246894504 |
| Description: | xvi, 249 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Stereoblind -- Mixed-up beginnings -- School crossings -- Knowing where to look -- Fixing my gaze -- The space between -- When two eyes see as one -- Nature and nurture -- Vision and revision. |
| Responsibility: | Susan R. Barry. |
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From the foreword by Oliver Sacks Though Sue originally thought her own case unique, she has since found a number of other people with strabismus and related problems who have unexpectedly achieved stereo vision through vision therapy. This is no easy accomplishment. It may require not only optical corrections (proper lenses or prisms, for example), but very intensive training and learning--in effect, learning how to align the eyes and to fuse their images, and unlearning the unconscious habit of suppressing vision which has been occurring perhaps for decades. In this way, vision therapy is directed at the whole person: it requires high motivation and self-awareness, and enormous perseverance, practice and determination, as does psychotherapy, for instance, or learning to play the piano. But it is also highly rewarding, as Sue brings out. And this ability to acquire new perceptual abilities later in life has great implications for anyone interested in neuroscience or rehabilitation, and, of course, for the millions of people who, like Sue, have been strabismic since infancy. Sue's case, and many others, suggest that if there are even small islands of function in the visual cortex, there may be a fair chance of reactivating and expanding them in later life, even after a lapse of decades, if vision can be made optically possible. Cases like these may offer new hope for those once considered incorrigibly stereo-blind. "Fixing My Gaze" will offer inspiration for anyone in this situation, but it is equally a very remarkable exploration of t
""Fixing My Gaze" is a beautiful description and appreciation of two very distinct ways of seeing... But it is also an exploration of much more. Sue is at pains not only to present her story, in clear and lucid, often poetic, language, but also, as a scientist, to provide understanding and explanation. She is in a unique position to do this, drawing on both her personal experience and her background as a neurobiologist....
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- Barry, Susan R. -- Health.
- Strabismus -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
- Depth perception.
- Behavioral optometry.
- Visual training.
- Neurobiologists -- United States -- Biography.
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