Neurologist Oliver Sacks tells stories of people who manage to navigate the world and communicate, despite losing what many consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the ability to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, and to see. In The Mind’s Eye he considers the fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think?
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New Yorker Out Loud: Oliver Sacks on living with face blindness
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Exploring the Relationship Between Music and Memory
Oliver Sacks, the prominent neurologist, author and researcher, talks about the many mysteries of the human brain. He’s working on a new book about music and memory, focusing on a musician whose memory lasts but for a few seconds but who can recall whole musical pieces, and even conduct an orchestra.
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Live From The NYPL: Oliver Sacks - Hallucinations
The Robert B. Silvers Lecture. Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks examines how the normal brain, if deprived of perceptual input, may generate illusory sensations—as with the visual hallucinations of the blind, or the musical hallucinations of the deaf.