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Active Review

CHAPTER 3 ACTIVE REVIEW Recommended for further reading or viewing! Movies The Miracle Worker (the story of Helen Keller, who was both deaf and blind) Home Before Dark (a thriller about a blind girl menaced by a killer) Children of a Lesser God (set in a school for the deaf) At First Sight (changes and problems that occur when a man, blind from birth, can suddenly see) The Matrix (a futuristic film that raises the question, What is reality?) Rashomon (focuses on a single event perceived in vastly different ways by different people) The Five Senses (main characters have heightened sensory powers) Josey and the Pusseycats (subliminal messages) Books Chandler Burr, The Emperor of Scent (Random House, 2003) (about the perfume industry and a scientist who is testing a new theory of how we smell) Henry Grunwald, Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight (Knopf, 1999) (former editor-in-chief of Time Magazine writes about going blind) Michael Posner and Marcus Raichle, Images of Mind (W. H. Freeman, 1997) (brain imaging) Richard. L. Gregory and J. Harris (Eds.), The Artful Eye (Oxford University Press, 1995) (visual perception) Richard. L. Gregory and Andrew M. Colman (Eds.), Sensation and Perception (Longman, 1995) (the senses and psychophysics) Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind (Alfred Knopf, 1997) (neurologist Sacks writes about a Pacific island where colorblindness is common) Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat (Touchstone Books, 1998) (descriptions of patients with sensory and perception disorders) Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf (Vintage, 2000) (how deaf people experience the world) Roger Shepard, Mind Sights (W. H. Freeman, 1990) (visual illusions, ambiguous figures) J. Richard Block and Harold Yuker, Can You Believe Your Eyes? (Gardner Press, 1989) (more illusions and visual oddities) .

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