Chapter 13 Learning to See 見ることを学ぶ

Learning to See １. As we move around the world, our visual system – our eyes and our brain 視覚器官 – is very important to us. Seeing seems natural, but we all had to learn how to understand ～の仕方 what our eyes see.

Let’s follow Weird Science as James ~ に従って 奇妙な科学 ~ のように learns to see again. First, he gets an unusual pair of goggles ゴーグ ル from Professor Hubert Dolezal of Northeastern Illinois University of Chicago.

These goggles turn James’s view of the world upside down, so he can’t understand さかさまに where his arms and legs are! As James stands up, he experiences the world as a baby.

If the TV remote control is to the left, James must move his hand to the left, but it isn’t easy. Even turning on the TV is hard. ～をつける

 These goggles were made for NASA to train astronauts 宇宙飛行士 for the confusing world of まごつかせる space.  And James’s sense of balance is being バランス感覚  greatly challenged.

 For lunch, the difficulty is to figure out わかる where his hands and his mouth are.  Young children have the same problem when they eat.  And, James has left just about the same 散らかしてしまった 同じ位の量の amount of mess.

To catch a ball James must practice many times to learn where his hands should be. After wearing the goggles for eight hours, James can move around his home 動き回る because the human brain can re-learn things. 再学習する

But if he wore the goggles continuously for two weeks, the world would seem strange when he took them off. はずす And, it would take several days for his かかる brain to re-learn which way is up! どちらが上か