The Mind's Eye
12 July 2018Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Synopsis
How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted?
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 capacity to recognize faces, the sense of...
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12 July 2018524 minutes
9781509895656Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Reviews
The Mind's Eye is about the possibility of recovery and the inexorable decline of the ageing individual. From this collision of incompatible truths, tragedy is made . . . making this Sacks's most powerful book to date.Sunday Telegraph
Packed with wisdom, humour, extraordinary human stories and reflections on how we all perceive the world . . . He ends with a brilliant discussion of blindness and the ways in which blind people develop visual concepts. Heartily recommended’.Reader’s Digest
