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Coming To Our Senses

On this week's Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea he asks how hard is it to learn to perceive the w...

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14.50 26 Jun 2021


Coming To Our Senses



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14.50 26 Jun 2021


On this week's Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea he asks how hard is it to learn to perceive the world if you were only able to see or hear as an adult and not since birth? Jonathan speaks to Susan R. Barry - Professor Emeritus of Biology and Neuroscience at Mount Holyoke College and author of Coming to Our Senses: A Boy Who Learned to See, a Girl Who Learned to Hear, and How We All Discover the World.

Also on the show, Jonathan is joined by Jessamyn Fairfield from NUI Galway and Fergus McAuliffe, Environmental Scientist at University College Cork, to look at the science news stories of the week.

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