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There's an interesting review of Oliver Sacks's (the guy who wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) new book The Mind's Eye in this month's Harper's. The review talks about plasticity of perception and describes an interesting case (that I didn't know of before but you probably have) of visual aphasia (or as they called it, verbal blindness) reported in 1892. The patient, after a stroke, lost his ability to read. He could speak and write but he could not read or name letters even though he knew that he was looking at letters.
I'm generally not interested in neuroscience (purely on principle) but this is really interesting.
Anyway, here's an interesting article from NPR (and a cool animation and an audio recording of the radio program) about Sacks's patient who has visual aphasia:
The Writer Who Couldn't Read : Krulwich Wonders? : NPR
Fascinating stuff.
I'm generally not interested in neuroscience (purely on principle) but this is really interesting.
Anyway, here's an interesting article from NPR (and a cool animation and an audio recording of the radio program) about Sacks's patient who has visual aphasia:
The Writer Who Couldn't Read : Krulwich Wonders? : NPR
Fascinating stuff.