'Eye See' receives People Award top-up

20 March 2003

'Eye See', a project which aims to represent in film the way the world is viewed by people with visual agnosia, has been awarded a Wellcome Trust People Award.

Visual agnosia is a rare neurological condition in which people have difficulties recognizing certain objects or categories of object. The 'Eye See' project originally received a Science on Stage and Screen production award in 2001. The top-up funding comes from a People Award - grants of up to £30 000 that encourage and support novel or imaginative public engagement with bioscience projects - under the umbrella of the Trust's Engaging Science scheme, launched in summer 2002.

'Eye See' is a work in progress, and the first public screening of extracts from Sally Anderson's short film drama on visual agnosia was held in Cambridge on 15 March, as part of National Science Week.