Reviews
This book made me realize that nothing I see or hear—not a single thing—is something I should take for granted. I was astonished throughout.
The language in the book is difficult for students to read, but the stories of the two people’s lives are both medical and entertaining. It is a good book to read quietly alone in the evening.
Through fascinating cases involving human senses and the nerves in the brain, the book vividly unfolds the possibilities of the human body.
A book filled with deep affection and understanding of how people use and acquire their senses. It inspires us to think about how we should view human beings and even life itself. The author once taught neuroplasticity theory and made firm judgments from the perspectives of brain science and neurology. Through years of attentive, caring observation, the author comes to see people anew and imagines the possibilities that lie ahead. That transformation is captivating.
A moving human story through and through, The Sense I Never Had, as its subtitle suggests, is a popular science book that clearly explores how we perceive the world through the stories of Liam, a boy who learned to see, and Zohra, a girl who learned to hear. The author’s warm scientific explanations as a neuroscientist, moving real-life stories, and wealth of information are easy to understand and relate to, even for readers without a science background. Why not beat the summer heat with this
The cover image was striking. The connections among the optic, auditory, and other cranial nerves were unfamiliar to me. I wanted to learn about people for whom the processes of seeing and hearing, which we take for granted, are not automatic. Here are passages from the book. A man had lived with blindness his whole life and was perfectly healthy when he underwent surgery to restore his sight. But over the year and a half after surgery, he became increasingly depressed and unwell, and
I am embarrassed to admit that I thought the senses were an obvious gift everyone received at birth. That belief was shaken when I volunteered for a short time teaching children at a community welfare center. A child with weak hearing struggled with listening activities and was delayed in overall language development. It was painful to see a child miss out because of a sensory loss. That was when I understood how much sight, hearing, touch, and all our senses enrich our lives. Susan Barry, the
What would it feel like if a sense you never had suddenly appeared? I recently read The Sense I Never Had, and found it fascinating. Neuroscientist Susan Barry writes about changes in her own senses and the surprising things she learned from them. The book gave me a new way to think about the senses. Until age 48, Susan Barry saw only a two-dimensional world because of strabismus. Her sudden ability to see in three dimensions is surprising and moving. Have you ever imagined what it would feel
Susan Barry: A sense I didn't have
What would it be like to gain sight after being unable to see throughout childhood? Or to hear sound for the first time? People assume adults who regain sight or hearing will feel great joy, but that is usually not what happens. Instead, they can be tormented by meaningless images and sounds, feel lost and pessimistic, and even lose the will to live. Through the stories of Liam, a boy born with very little sight, and Zohra, a girl born deaf, who undergo surgeries to regain sensory abilities and learn to adapt, this book warmly and thoroughly explores how human sight and hearing work, why some people adapt to a new sense while others do not, and why different people perceive the same world differently. It is a tribute to human resilience and our ability to learn and adapt, and it makes us see the ordinary abilities of seeing and hearing in an entirely new way.
Korean title: 내게 없던 감각
Korean author: 수전 배리
Korean publisher: 김영사
ISBN-13: 9788934939528
Reviews
This book made me realize that nothing I see or hear—not a single thing—is something I should take for granted. I was astonished throughout.
The language in the book is difficult for students to read, but the stories of the two people’s lives are both medical and entertaining. It is a good book to read quietly alone in the evening.
Through fascinating cases involving human senses and the nerves in the brain, the book vividly unfolds the possibilities of the human body.
A book filled with deep affection and understanding of how people use and acquire their senses. It inspires us to think about how we should view human beings and even life itself. The author once taught neuroplasticity theory and made firm judgments from the perspectives of brain science and neurology. Through years of attentive, caring observation, the author comes to see people anew and imagines the possibilities that lie ahead. That transformation is captivating.
A moving human story through and through, The Sense I Never Had, as its subtitle suggests, is a popular science book that clearly explores how we perceive the world through the stories of Liam, a boy who learned to see, and Zohra, a girl who learned to hear. The author’s warm scientific explanations as a neuroscientist, moving real-life stories, and wealth of information are easy to understand and relate to, even for readers without a science background. Why not beat the summer heat with this
The cover image was striking. The connections among the optic, auditory, and other cranial nerves were unfamiliar to me. I wanted to learn about people for whom the processes of seeing and hearing, which we take for granted, are not automatic. Here are passages from the book. A man had lived with blindness his whole life and was perfectly healthy when he underwent surgery to restore his sight. But over the year and a half after surgery, he became increasingly depressed and unwell, and
I am embarrassed to admit that I thought the senses were an obvious gift everyone received at birth. That belief was shaken when I volunteered for a short time teaching children at a community welfare center. A child with weak hearing struggled with listening activities and was delayed in overall language development. It was painful to see a child miss out because of a sensory loss. That was when I understood how much sight, hearing, touch, and all our senses enrich our lives. Susan Barry, the
What would it feel like if a sense you never had suddenly appeared? I recently read The Sense I Never Had, and found it fascinating. Neuroscientist Susan Barry writes about changes in her own senses and the surprising things she learned from them. The book gave me a new way to think about the senses. Until age 48, Susan Barry saw only a two-dimensional world because of strabismus. Her sudden ability to see in three dimensions is surprising and moving. Have you ever imagined what it would feel
