Bravo to the Mark Morris Dance Group for their pioneering program bringing music, and dance, to people with Parkinson’s disease.  Dr. Sacks first saw the power of music in his [...]

People with alexia can see perfectly well, but their brains lose the ability to decipher words and letters. Howard Engel, the Canadian novelist known for his Benny Cooperman series of [...]

"Stereo Sue," a chapter in The Mind's Eye, is about Sue Barry, a neurobiologist who suddenly acquires stereopsis, and true three-dimensional vision, in her fifties.  After a lifetime of inferring [...]

Writing, a cultural tool, has evolved to make use of the inferotemporal neurons' preference for certain shapes. "Letter shape," as Stanislas Dehaene writes, "is not an arbitrary cultural choice"—it is [...]

We often talk about which sense we would choose to lose, if we had to give one up. But sometimes, the borderline between senses is not so clear.  Dr. Sacks [...]