Book Review: Fixing My Gaze by Susan R Barry
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 2:20PM Fixing my Gaze
A Scientist’s Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions
By Susan R. Barry
Basic Books publishers, 2009
Susan Barry is a professor of neurobiology, who in her late 40s, with the help of a behavioral optometrist, learned to team her eyes and see in three dimensions for the first time in her life.
By all means get hold of a copy of this book. I don’t think you would want to borrow mine since I have highlighted nearly every page. If you seek a really good read with in-depth explanations of challenges to binocularity and what can be done to overcome them; if you want to be reminded of how much plasticity the human brain has even in adulthood; if you want insights into why adults require different exercise programs than those designed for children, and what a critical period in human vision development really means; or if you want to understand better how lack of vision modifies how the other senses work.
And if this hasn’t convinced you yet, then here is a quote to whet your appetite: “My son and daughter, when young, could grasp the details and the big picture at the same time. I didn’t know how to do this until midlife, when I learned to see simultaneously with two eyes.”
Learn more about it at http://www.fixingmygaze.com/