The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks, lecturer May 30, 2008

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Oliver Sacks, neurologist, author, and Columbia University’s first “Columbia Artist”
Robert Krulwich, correspondent for NPR’s Science Desk

The World Science Festival at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This special presentation of the 2008 World Science Festival illuminates the complex and often surprising relationship between vision and the brain. In a wideranging conversation, Oliver Sacks and Robert Krulwich shed light on the interplay between what the eye sees and how the the mind perceives it, touching on topics including stereo vision, how blind people can be paradoxically hyper visual, and the mechanisms of visual hallucinations, adding a new chapter to Sacks’s ongoing exploration into the fascinating mysteries of the brain and human experience.

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