The man who can’t see numbers
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Thanks to the late Oliver Sacks, we’ve heard astonishing tales of the brain’s idiosyncratic digressions when things go askew, such as the man who mistook his wife for a hat, the disembodied lady and the autist artist.
Now, researchers describe in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a man who can’t see numbers but can see letters, even though neural tests showed his brain can detect them both equally.
Published by Cosmos.