In the mind's eye : visual thinkers, gifted people with dyslexia and other learning difficulties, computer images, and the ironies of creativity /

In the mind's eye : visual thinkers, gifted people with dyslexia and other learning difficulties, computer images, and the ironies of creativity /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	West, Thomas G., 1943-
Edition:	Updated ed.
Imprint:	Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1997.
Description:	397 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Genius. Imagery (Psychology) Creative ability. Learning disabilities. Trait intercorrelations. Gifted persons -- Case studies. Computer graphics -- Psychological aspects. Neuropsychology. Computer graphics -- Psychological aspects. Creative ability. Genius. Gifted persons. Imagery (Psychology) Learning disabilities. Neuropsychology. Trait intercorrelations. Case studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2786739

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Varying Form of Title:	Mind's eye
ISBN:	1573921556 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-380) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface to the Updated Edition
Preface
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
Appendix A. Symptomatology
Appendix B. Sources of Information
Notes
Bibliography
Additional Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Copyright Acknowledgments
Index
What the Critics Are Saying About in the Mind's Eye