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050 00 RE771|b.B37 2009 
082 00 617.7/62|222 
100 1  Barry, Susan R. 
245 10 Fixing my gaze :|ba scientist's journey into seeing in 
       three dimensions /|cSusan R. Barry. 
264  1 New York :|bBasic Books,|c[2009] 
264  4 |c©2009 
300    xvi, 249 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-236) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    Barry, a neuroscientist at Mount Holyoke College, was born
       with her eyes crossed and literally couldn't see in all 
       three dimensions. Barry underwent several surgeries as a 
       child, but it wasn't until she was in college that she 
       realized she wasn't seeing in 3-D. The medical profession 
       has believed that the visual center of the brain can't 
       rewire itself after a critical cutoff point in a child's 
       development, but in her 40s, with the help of optometric 
       vision therapy, Barry showed that previously neglected 
       neurons could be nudged back into action. The author tells
       a poignant story of her gradual discovery of the shapes in
       flowers in a vase, snowflakes falling, even the folds in 
       coats hanging on a peg. After Barry's story was written up
       in the New Yorker by Oliver Sacks, she heard from many 
       others who had successfully learned to correct their 
       vision as adults, challenging accepted wisdom about the 
       plasticity of the brain. Recommended for all readers who 
       cheer stories with a triumph over seemingly insuperable 
       odds. 
600 10 Barry, Susan R.|xHealth. 
650  0 Strabismus. 
650  0 Depth perception. 
650  0 Behavioral optometry. 
650  0 Visual training. 
650  0 Neurobiologists. 
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