Professor Sue Barry, dubbed “Stereo Sue” by neurologist Oliver Sacks in his book The Mind’s Eye, actually wrote her own book on her experience with Stereoblindness called Fixing my Gaze. I ordered it from my local library and will share quotes/notes when available. http://www.stereosue.com/
Short Interview with Oliver Sacks and Sue Barry.
In this video, Prof. Barry shares another example of her experience with Stereoblindness.
Neurologist & Professor, Sue Barry, gives an excellent Tedx Talk on Steroblindness
This presentation gives an incredible account on Sue Barry’s personal experience with Steroblindness. She explains the condition, the cure, and debunks research in detail.
Key Words/Phrases/Quotes from Tedx Talk:
- Double-vision
- Combined Input vs. Singular
- Eye turn
- The Critical Period Theory- time in childhood for visual development
- Developmental Optometrist & Vision Therapy
- “In distance, everything seemed to jitter”
- “Didn’t know to aim the eyes at the same place in the same space and time.”
- Normal viewer (develop between 2 to 4 months of age)
- Convergence action = while looking at a close object, aim eyes by turning eyes both in together
- Divergent action= turn both eyes out to aim that the more distant object
- Prof. Barry learned to do the above at the age of 48
- More on the Broch String: https://www.seevividly.com/info/Lazy_Eye_Treatments/Eye_Exercises/Brock_String
- “An adult brain changes as a result of active learning. You have to become very self-aware. You have to learn how to change very entrenched habits into new ones. And these experiences have to be accompanied by a sense of novelty and a sense of accomplishment in order for you to continue with all the hard world and practice it is going to take. So if you read in a text book that something is not possible, it ain’t necessarily so.”