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Fixing my gaze: a scientist’s journey into seeing in three dimensions, by Susan R. Barry, is a fascinating account of how an adult who was previously unable to perceive objects and space as three dimensional was able to gain that ability. As a child, Barry, now a professor of Biological Sciences at Mount Holyoke College, was cross-eyed. Although she subsequently underwent three eye surgeries that achieved successful cosmetic alignment of her eyes, she did not have any stereovision. Barry had accepted this deficit as an unsurprising consequence of her early inability to image objects simultaneously through both of her eyes and learned to gauge depth using other visual cues.
However, as an adult, her gaze became “jittery,” interfering with her ability to perform necessary tasks of everyday life such as driving and reading and severely restricting her visual world. When she was 47 years old, she began vision therapy under the guidance of a developmental optometrist in order to stabilize her vision.
Eventually she learned to coordinate seeing through both eyes. An unexpected outcome of acquiring this skill was that, for the first time in her memory, she began to see the world around her in three dimensions. Fixing my gaze chronicles the story of this perceptual discovery. In addition to recounting her personal triumph, Barry clearly explains the visual and clinical science needed to understand the significance of this achievement. Polyboard 4 06 Keygen Torrent there. Barry’s story is of wide interest because neuroscientists had long regarded the adult brain as having only a limited ability to rewire itself to acquire new functions. It has been clear for some time that experience molds neural connections during critical periods that take place early in an individual’s development.