Fixing My Gaze

When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the deliriously novel sense of immersion in a three dimensional world. Barry had been cross-eyed since early infancy, and told that there was no way she could ever see in 3-D.  But after intensive training, she was able to accomplish what was once considered impossible.

Dubbed “Stereo Sue” by renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks, Barry now tells her own story. A revelatory account of the brain’s capacity for change, Fixing My Gaze describes a remarkable journey and celebrates the joyous pleasure of our senses.