“Our tests, our approaches...are ridiculously inadequate. They only show us deficits, they do not show us powers; they only show us puzzles and schemata, when we need to see music, narrative, play, a being conducting itself spontaneously in its own natural way.”

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Musicophilia

2007

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

2004

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Awakenings

1973

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The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island

1997

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The Mind's Eye

2010

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