Sue Barry learned to see with both eyes

Listen to Sue’s inteview on NPR’s Fresh Air.

Visit the Website for Sue’s book, Fixing My Gaze.

Read Sue’s story as a chapter in Oliver Sacks’ book, The Mind’s Eye.

Click on the image to start or stop the snowfall. Stereogram by www.hidden-3d.com.

Photo: Rosalie Winard

Dubbed “Stereo Sue” by neurologist Oliver Sacks in a New Yorker
article by that name, Sue Barry has gone on to write her own book Fixing My Gaze which describes the astonishing experience of gaining 3D stereovision after a lifetime of seeing in only two dimensions. Intensive vision therapy created new neural connections, and with them, a new view of the world. Challenging conventional wisdom that the brain is programmed for life during a critical period in childhood, Barry offers a poignant and
revelatory account of our capacity for change.