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In the Mind's Eye
Creative Visual Thinkers, Gifted Dyslexics, and the Rise of Visual Technologies
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eBook - ePub
In the Mind's Eye
Creative Visual Thinkers, Gifted Dyslexics, and the Rise of Visual Technologies
About this book
In the Mind's Eye has been recognized as a classic in its field. The book still stands alone as a uniquely compelling argument for the great importance of visual thinking and visual technologies as well as the high creative potential of many individuals with dyslexia or other learning difficulties. In this third edition, Thomas G. West reviews a number of recent developments that support and extend the perspectives and expectations originally set forth in the first edition. In addition to the original eleven portraits of famous individuals with learning difficulties (including Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison), he has added brief profiles of two dyslexic scientists known for their ability to generate, in quite different fields, powerful but unexpected innovations and discoveries: William J. Dreyer, a Caltech professor who used his highly visual imagination to see things in molecular biology and immunology well before others; and John R. (Jack) Horner, who flunked out of the University of Montana seven times (requiring letters of support for readmission) but is now known as one of the three most important paleontologists in the world. Recognized as among the "best of the best" by the American Library Association in their broad psychology and neuroscience category, this title belongs on the bookshelves of all educators and anyone with an interest in visual thinking, visual technologies, and highly creative people with learning difficulties.
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PsychologieSubtopic
Difficultés d'apprentissageTable of contents
- Foreword Oliver Sacks, M.D.
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- 1. Slow Words, Quick Images: An Overview
- 2. Dyslexia and Learning Difficulties from the Inside
- 3. Constellations of Traits, Some Neurological Perspectives
- 4. Profiles, Part 1: Faraday, Maxwell, and Einstein
- 5. Profiles, Part 2: Dodgson, Poincaré, Edison, Tesla, and da Vinci
- 6. Profiles, Part 3: Churchill, Patton, and Yeats
- 7. Speech and Nonverbal Thought
- 8. Patterns in Creativity
- 9. Images, Computers, and Mathematics
- 10. Patterns, Implications, Possibilities
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright Acknowledgments