In the mind's eye : creative visual thinkers, gifted dyslexics, and the rise of visual technologies /
Thomas G. West.
- 2nd ed.
- 516 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.
Foreword /Oliver Sacks -- Slow words, quick images: an overview -- Dyslexia and learning difficulties from the inside -- Constellations of traits, some neurological perspectives -- Profiles, part 1: Faraday, Maxwell, and Einstein -- Profiles, part 2: Dodgson, Poincaré, Edison, Tesla, and da Vinci -- Profiles, part 3: Churchill, Patton, and Yeats -- Speech and nonverbal thought -- Patterns in creativity -- Images, computers, and mathematics -- Patterns, implications, possibilities -- Epilogue -- Appendices : Symptomology ; Sources of information.