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Coming to Our Senses: A Boy Who Learned to See, a Girl Who Learned to Hear, and How We All Discover the World
Maybe someday
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32/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Susan R. Barry
Publisher:
Basic Books
Date:
June 8, 2021
Neurobiologist Susan R. Barry argues that perception is a deeply personal act. She tells the stories of Liam McCoy, practically blind from birth, and Zohra Damji, born deaf, in the decade following surgeries that restored their senses. As Liam and Zohra learned entirely new ways of being, Barry discovered an entirely new model of the nature of perception.
What The Reviewers Say
It was a revelation to read, in Coming to Our Senses, about people who retrieved part or all of their vision or hearing late in life, and who not only didn’t like it, but who actually suffered and even died as a result.
Neurobiologist Barry explores sight, hearing, and perception in this triumphant survey of people who gained a sense they were born without.
Through stories of two amazing individuals, a neurobiologist explains how we see and hear.
