Sensing: Erratic Eyes

Series

Series Name: Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

225

Date Released

1978

Length of issue (in feet)

522

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: Senses, for tasting; touching; seeing. Senses for survival. This programme looks at the significance of our new understanding of sense mechanisms - in man, animal and machine. When an otherwise intelligent person has great difficulty in reading he’s often described as "dyslexic". But is it just a label, or is it a real clinical condition? A psychologist at the University of Manchester has been studying people’s eye movements, and he’s convinced that dyslexia does indeed exist - and that it’s related to the way we see.

Keywords

Education and training; Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/225

Credits:

Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor: Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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